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Despite how it might appear in bad action movies, throwing a knife and making it stick in a target is no easy feat. Taking inspiration from the aforementioned movies, [Quint] …read more Continue reading Knife Throwing Machine Gets the Spin Just Right
A proper gun safe should be difficult to open, but critically, allow instant access by the authorized party.[Dr. Gerg] got a SnapSafe and discovered that, while it was quite easy …read more Continue reading Gun Safe Made Safer With Lithium Battery Upgrade
Those of use hailing from the UK may be quite familiar with the Royal Air Force’s Tornado fighter jet, which was designed to fight in a theoretical nuclear war, and …read more Continue reading Beautiful Engineering In This Laser Unit From a Tornado Jet Fighter
As their prospects for victory in the Second World War became increasingly grim, the Germans developed a wide array of outlandish “Wonder Weapons” that they hoped would help turn the …read more Continue reading The Fliegerfaust Roars Back to Life After 77 Years
As we all know, the lightsaber is an elegant weapon, for a more civilized age. [Alex Burkan] is doing what he can to bring that technology to fruition, and even …read more Continue reading Building a Lightsaber and Scoring a World Record, Too
Kinetic projectiles are a seldom-used weapon of war, consisting of heavy metal slugs dropped from a great height by aircraft. On the way down to the ground, they pick up …read more Continue reading Kinetic Strikes Via A Consumer Grade Drone
Are you still launching paper airplanes using your hands? That’s like a baby’s toy! [Tom Stanton] and his homebrew electromagnetic rail launcher are sure to bring your paper airplane game into …read more Continue reading Propel Paper Planes, Bisect Sausages With Electromagnets
Remember Terminator 2? Guns were nearly useless against the murderous T-1000, played by Robert Patrick. Bullets fired at the “liquid metal” robot resulted only in a chrome-looking bullet splash that …read more Continue reading Those Bullet Effects in Terminator 2 Weren’t CGI
Despite reading Hackaday daily and seeing the incredible things that people do, something comes along that just sort of blows you away every once in a while. Sometimes it’s just …read more Continue reading Spider-Man Swings A Little Closer To Reality
Well, here it is: a shoe-in for the new world’s largest NERF gun. (Video, embedded below.) The Guinness people haven’t shown up yet to award [Michael Pick], but at 12.5 …read more Continue reading Giant Working NERF Gun Runs on Tiny Arduino