Collaborate Disseminate
The last time we visited the Hackaday shooting range we were all psyched up to get the right posture, breathe correctly, lower our heart rates and squeeze the trigger at exactly the right moment that the wandering cross hairs align with the target ……. and lastly accommodate the inevitable recoil. …read more
Continue reading How Ammo Temperature Will Affect Shooting Accuracy
Employees of the company Explo Systems were sentenced on Friday for a criminal conspiracy involving Army explosives. Continue reading Five Men Responsible for 7,200-Foot Mushroom Cloud Explosion in Louisiana Sentenced to Prison
Meanwhile, its ultra-versatile new $440 million warship is frozen to a dock in Canada. Continue reading The Navy Can’t Afford $1 Million ‘Smart’ Shells for Its $4 Billion Battleships
The biodegradable shells will contain time-delayed seeds that will begin growing after several months. Continue reading The Government Wants to Make Bullets That Turn Into Plants
If you’ve ever fired a potato cannon, you’ll know that they are a raucous good time, but are somewhat clumsy to reload after each shot. Seeing an opportunity to improve on the design and minimize the delay between launches, [Danger First] have concocted a fast reloading potato cannon — or should I say — Potowitzer.
The key here is that they’ve gone through the extra effort of designing and building honest-to-goodness artillery rounds for their Potowitzer’s manual breech-loading mechanism. Foregoing the inconsistency of potatoes, they’ve 3D printed a bevy of bullets and sealed them with propane gas into PVC pipe …read more
