You shouldn’t play with your food. Unless you’re designing some kind of portable cannon to fling it across the room. That’s precisely what [Backhaul Studios] did.
The first step of designing the condiment cannon was deciding what it should fire. Little low-profile tubs of jelly ended up being the ideal. They were stout enough to survive high-speed flight, while their low height was good for aerodynamics. The cannon itself is built from metal and 3D-printed parts. Multiple iterations eventually landed on a flywheel launcher design with big brushless motors and large 6-inch discs. It sounds positively awful in action and can fling jam (jelly) packets at immense speed. From there, it was simply necessary to design a magazine feed system to enable high-speed full-auto jelly delivery.
If you’ve ever hucked ketchup packets at a brick wall, you’ve understood the joy of splattering condiments everywhere. This cannon is just a way to do that faster and more hilariously. We’ve seen other fun builds along these lines before, too. Video after the break.
I didn’t know that PCBWAY did laser cutting!
Were the final tests conducted using different jelly/jam types?
The BVJJMCCA (Butter, Vegemite, Jam, Jelly, and Cream Cheese Agency) will be busting down his front door soon, because he forgot to register it as condiment destroying weapon!
Oops! The M stands for marmalade, but you already knew that!
They also do CNC metal and plastic machining.
Much like defrosting the chicken*, I was hoping that the jam would be fired at the toast /without/ its packaging. Preceded by a pat of butter, of course. I know that top scientists Mr Wallace & Mr Gromit have been working on it, but I haven’t seen any recent results.
Some people will get the reference
Sadly for Wallace, Gru beat him to the jelly gun.
This crossover must happen.
Wallace did it in the early 90s with a worktop mounted onagar-style catapult. Think that predates Gru by a bit! No? (Unless I’ve got my cultural references mixed up 🙂)
I thought of jelled but still liquid mass blobs penetrating toast, not plastic coated bullets which they fire at people. These things get fired off everywhere on earth and remain.
We need food safe shooters (no ballistics) for condiments for takeout and table if not bottled. Ask for and get what you want and no more, 0 to 5 amounts for mustard etc. and no plastics either.
It’s OK to play with your food if you’ve already eaten all your toys.