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This USB slingshot controller really brought a smile to our faces. Part of it is the delightfully silly promo video you’ll find after the break. [Simon Ford] combined nature and technology to bring this USB-enabled slingshot into existence.
The frame itself is from a branch he found in the Epping Forrest of London. He whittled away the bark, and hollowed … Read the rest
Good old [Jörg Sprave].
That guy just doesn’t quit building insane slingshots. If he’s not honing his machete slinging skills in preparation for the zombie apocalypse, he’s blowing out car windows with giant steel balls.
The huge cannon you see above is modeled off a small slingshot he made a while back, which fired 8mm steel bearings. In its larger … Read the rest
Sometimes people build things for the simple challenge of building. This is one of those cases.
The gentleman you see in the image above is [Jörg Sprave] of The Slingshot Channel. He is a self-proclaimed “Supid Expert” on the subject of slingshots and has taken his love of flinging things at absurd velocities to a whole new level.… Read the rest
While doing serious fruitcake research, (no, really) we stumbled across the Great Fruitcake Toss held every January in Colorado. The particular entry above caught our eye. Omega 380 was built by a group of Boeing engineers and currently holds the distance record of 1,420feet. It’s a large compressed air cannon. All pressure is human generated using an exercise bike turning … Read the rest
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