The P.E.S.T. is a “centrifugal” launcher using a rotor powered by a DC motor to accelerate plastic BBs. It has a 50 round magazine and 3 fire modes: semi-auto, 3 round burst, and full-auto. Fire is not instantaneous because it takes 0.75 seconds for the rotor to spin up. If you follow this “read” link you’ll find a detailed description of the device. Photos can be found here.
yeah, heh
and i wonder if he will release the code for it?
looks pritty simple to build, wonder if he will make a guide tho
Posted at 10:44 am on Oct 15th, 2005 by ultramagneus
sweet, there are always pics of them but why hasnt anyone posted a DIY Chronograph?
Posted at 10:50 am on Oct 15th, 2005 by redfireant3
There’s one there on the read link.
Posted at 11:09 am on Oct 15th, 2005 by Edward Zieba
i thought using a DMM for the display of the chronograph was really clever.
this is one sweet project
Posted at 1:27 pm on Oct 15th, 2005 by kamet
“The P.E.S.T. is a
Posted at 1:33 pm on Oct 15th, 2005 by Kibiyama
Yeah, the posting software wasn’t listening to me so I had to work around it.
Posted at 1:55 pm on Oct 15th, 2005 by Eliot Phillips
Wait, where does the slug come in again?
Posted at 3:07 pm on Oct 15th, 2005 by DeltaSpectre
PEST. Psst, and I thought it was a “slug” launcher. Would have made one of those-if it shot real “slugs”
Posted at 3:46 pm on Oct 15th, 2005 by bud newport
If the person who made the site is listening.. frames are not your friend.
Posted at 3:52 pm on Oct 15th, 2005 by Drakonite
@ 11, yeah, especially THAT many frames, just glad that firefox has a “view only that frame” feature :-D
Posted at 5:11 pm on Oct 15th, 2005 by ultramagneus
Why not P.E.L.T. (Portable Electromechanical Launcher/Thrower)? Seems like a more appropriate use of the word.
Posted at 5:37 pm on Oct 15th, 2005 by Fahad
Ooh, I like p.e.l.t. poppoppow “AAUURRGGH!”
“You’ve just been PELTed, my friend.”
Posted at 8:31 pm on Oct 15th, 2005 by ator1
Damn that thing looks more sexy than my girlfriend. It reminds me of something from Warhammer 40,000.
Posted at 6:05 am on Oct 16th, 2005 by PrawnJuice
The slug laucher’s only defense is the salt suit.
Ewwwwwww.
Posted at 1:35 pm on Oct 16th, 2005 by strider_mt2k
Nice project, but lets get the military involved: Check out the DREAD gun.
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_DREAD,,00.html
Posted at 4:24 pm on Oct 16th, 2005 by bryon
Looking for some help. Those interested in this slug thrower and the dread gun may be interested.
How to build this resetting target. I can’t afford the $1700.
I’m handy with metal but not so versed in power/timer/software coding
Thanks
k308
Posted at 8:37 pm on Oct 16th, 2005 by 1000yrds
Hi,
http://www.geocities.com/pest3125 is the ‘official’ website – it will go down due to excessive traffic. I put most of the photos on http://photos.yahoo.com/pest3125 to lower the BW of the main site. If you are having problems with the frames on the site, I am curious why – its written in pure html using Ace4html freeware and worked fine on Opera and IE.
Posted at 11:39 am on Oct 17th, 2005 by anon
neat, but once you scale it up, I imagine gyroscopic forces will become pretty significant. #17, I’m talkin’ to you.
Posted at 12:46 pm on Oct 17th, 2005 by joshw
Just wondering, how do you actually stop the balls/ammo from rolling out of the barrel? i’m planning on making something along these lines and will post when i’m done. thanks
Posted at 2:31 am on Oct 20th, 2005 by mf-
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the “read” and “read” links point to different sites..
Posted at 9:42 am on Oct 15th, 2005 by Jaap Stolk