Comments on: The 2008 Shmooball Gun

By: Bio Goji

Bio Goji — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:55:36 +0000

Super Post, w�rde gerne den RSS Feed abonieren wie geht das???

By: werejag

werejag — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:18:08 +0000

how would you shoot multiple 3 or more object one after another?

By: Will

Will — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:14:05 +0000

This bloke looks like a peadophile. Don’t let him near kids. His toy is just to attract kids.

By: Cody

Cody — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:52:44 +0000

If you were to touch the wires on the sprinkler valve to the power source does it open??

By: mosfet

mosfet — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:45:56 +0000

has eny body thought about adding cool led,s to this

By: 031727173

031727173 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:15:58 +0000

hehehehehe

By: TNW_NL

TNW_NL — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:55:19 +0000

Nice gun, but unmodded sprinkler valves won't offer much performance, but still more than enough for shooting little balls at speakers :)

I wonder why nobody here refers to spud guns, as most development on pneumatic cannons is done by the spud gunning crowd (which I sort of belong to, heh).
There is a lot of research going on about piston valves, quick exhaust valves, modifying sprinkler/solenoid valves etc.
If people want to get into contact with more people developing crazy stuff, visit spudfiles.com...

By: Philippine Goji Juice

Philippine Goji Juice — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:50:14 +0000

great post. i liked it…

By: RenderMan

RenderMan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:57:23 +0000

I was not necessarily scared of it, it’s just that during my talk, it went off on the other side of the wall and was louder than I remember it being in person.

Was way cool though.

By: kyle

kyle — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:50:15 +0000

ditto. i have a paintball gun that fires at 700 fps. the sky’s the limit, friends.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:59:35 +0000

Mike, you’ve obviously never seen a real air cannon in action.

My light paintball cannon is significantly smaller than that, and at full power kicks harder than an average 12ga shotgun.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:44:06 +0000

Dan, it’s impressive when it’s firing 6+ Shmooballs across a decently sized conference room at Joshua Wright’s junk.

And I don’t actually remember hearing it honk at all…

By: kyle

kyle — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:01:32 +0000

I agree with the comments on modifying the valve and ditching the solenoid. i’ve used this approach on all of my cannons including the pilot valve on the aforementioned golf ball cannon, and the performance gains are enormous. also you wouldn’t need to use a battery. i guess i forgot to mention it earlier, but its really worth it.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:37:29 +0000

Yeah. Not that impressive.

Unless you modded this valve, it probably honks when you fire the gun off, or at least honks when the air chamber gets low.

Take the ten minutes+5 bucks in parts to turn it into an air-operated valve instead of solenoid, you'll be rewarded with MUCH more power, especially with an air storage chamber that size.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:53:44 +0000

Oops -- Sorry. I meant,

these:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/04/rose-petal-cannon.html