DIY Railgun
posted Oct 17th 2005 9:30am by Eliot Phillipsfiled under: misc hacks
We’ve hit on a few EM projectile systems recently, so [Jason Rollette] thought it would be a good time to cover his railgun. I couldn’t agree more. Jason has been keeping his Railgun Blog up-to-date from nearly day one. Right now he is assembling a larger capacitor bank to power the gun. The PVC piping you see in the picture is part of the injection rig; If the projectile is stationary when the gun is fired it would get welded to the rails (if not worse). Check out Jason’s Railgun Blog for details on his project plus a lot of informative links.
The videos are great!
Also, if you want more basic info on railguns check out the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun
Posted at 11:28 am on Oct 17th, 2005 by flaunt_dzx