Comments on: 1100 barrel paintball gun

By: Paintballing

Paintballing — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:43:50 +0000

If I had more money than sense I would buy that paintball gun and take it down to one of our local centres.. Could you imaging the look on the others players faces.

Olly

By: Frogz

Frogz — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:19:38 +0000

http://dsc.discovery.com/video/index.html?playerId=203711706&categoryId=210013704&lineupId=1283221956&titleId=1790967085
the full uncut ~10 minute video

By: andre

andre — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:40:26 +0000

Aand this week’s challenge:- modify it to print in colour. Easy enough, just have an RGB LED and sensor on each barrel by the loader mechanism, and have the micro detect the next colour in the barrel and fire/not fire depending on this.

Pretty simple in theory.. :)
-A

By: Links Of The Week: Rage, Paintball, Google Embarrassed, Jeff MacKay Passes Away

Links Of The Week: Rage, Paintball, Google Embarrassed, Jeff MacKay Passes Away — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:18:12 +0000

[...] 1100 barrel paintball gun [Adam] and [Jamie] from Mythbusters built a paintball gun with 1100 barrels as some graphics card marketing gimmick. It’s a formidable beast, but we’re sure it takes forever to prep. [Link] [...]

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Snuffy’s Web Blitching » 1100 barrel paintball gun — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:15:28 +0000

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By: DesChamos

DesChamos — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:36:01 +0000

In the full video, they mention how they were going to make it a trick, but were advised against it.

By: arkizzle

arkizzle — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:25:16 +0000

Check the whole set, they’re sweet :)
(manual step-through I’m afraid, I can’t find them posted in a gallery anywhere on the site..)

By: arkizzle

arkizzle — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:19:55 +0000

@HeadBonk

http://www.nvidia.com/content/nvision2008/photos/a&jclosing44.jpg
http://www.nvidia.com/content/nvision2008/photos/a&jclosing45.jpg
http://www.nvidia.com/content/nvision2008/photos/a&jclosing46.jpg
http://www.nvidia.com/content/nvision2008/photos/a&jclosing06.jpg

Real :)

By: Riax

Riax — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:01:52 +0000

In other words, what michaelb said.

By: Riax

Riax — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:59:34 +0000

@headbonk

Why, then, is the splatter coming off of the painting colored like the Mona Lisa? Shouldn’t the splatter be black if your theory is correct?

By: miles

miles — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:03:05 +0000

Big + Loud + Complex = cool in my book.

I think that is super cool.

By: FiSH

FiSH — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:12:31 +0000

it's the world's largest, fastest*, loudest dot matrix printer.

*pending autoload functionality.

love the high speed footage.

By: michaelb

michaelb — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:30:06 +0000

@headbonk.com: I have to disagree; there is blackness in between each “pixel” on the painted image (Also, one has to account for the degradation of quality in the video), and in the slowed down clip you can clearly see the different colored paint balls and the mist given off when they hit the canvas. Although, all of this *could* be faked, I don’t think(hope) that the MythBusters are ones to fake it… In short, I too, wish there was a close-up shot of the painting. (Hey, perhaps, we could send this to the MythBusters as a myth to test?!)

By: headbonk.com

headbonk.com — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:07:42 +0000

It seems a little fishy to me.

I'd like to see a closeup of the mona lisa that that thing 'painted'. From the shot in the clip where they turn it around it looks awfully regular. I can't imagine that they could actually line up all the barrels so that the paint balls all line up in nice perfectly even rows.

And did you notice that the canvas was black before it fired, but then is brightly colored afterwards with no hint of black showing through?

I think that the black was just a thin layer of something covering over a pre-printed image of the mona lisa with nice regular rows of 'pixels' - then the paintballs just had something that washed off the black stuff. It is an add for a graphics card after all. The ad men don't want to tell the world that their card makes messy driping pixels.

I still love the MB, and I agree with everything that said before about them having the best job and being the most sincere of the sci reality shows. But remember what they did before they got this cool gig? They were special effects guys ;^)

By: miller

miller — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:43:47 +0000

@ Monster

You hate them for having the best jobs in the world huh? Well, I hate you for even having a job. I can’t find one for the life of me since I was laid off – I can’t even get a job at Wal-Mart. Look on the bright side buddy, a BS job is better than no job.