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Make A Small Coilgun (aka Coilosapien Update)

March 21, 2007 by Will O'Brien 9 Comments


Remember the coilosapien? I hopped over and found that [marcus] wrote a tutorial on his mini coil gun. He beefed up a disposable camera charging circuit with some extra capacitors to drive the coil, and used a small servo for his automatic reload mechanism. Everything you need to arm your robots.

Posted in Robots HacksTagged armed robot masters, ArmedRobotMasters, robosapein, robosapien

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