Lego gun
A sad person, or a clever person (it depends on your point of view) has made a working gun out of lego. Before you say wow!, its not a working gun in that it only fires rubber bands, not lead bullets. But it can fire them in semi-automatic mode, so still pretty impressive.
And if you run out of ammo, its got a built in chain saw.
H/t El Reg
SBML
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October 4, 2011 at 05:25 -
“In MY schooldays we didn’t have ‘Lego’ ” – so had to make our ‘elastic band guns’ out of cardboard (this cannot, of course, be done now – because it involved the use of KNIVES!!!). One my proudest achievements was one with a sequential trigger mechanism that fired six bands in succession
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October 4, 2011 at 07:59 -
Apparently, someone was bored to hell
Innovative and probably clever guy but with too much spare time. -
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October 4, 2011 at 08:20 -
Sad and clever are not mutually exclusive. Someone will hire him on the basis of this video though. He’s clearly pretty smart.
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October 4, 2011 at 10:27 -
I doubt that. Try Googling “lego gun youtube” and you’ll see this chap is merely the last in a looong line of Lego gunsmiths.
There are lego crossbows and trebuchets too, if you like your plastic weaponry to come with a mediaeval twist.
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October 4, 2011 at 10:51 -
Bah!
In my younger days we didn’t need all this sophistication. You fired lazzy bands by stretching them over your upturned thumb, taking aim and letting fly. A good lazzy band stretched over two fingers launched ink-soaked blotting paper balls. If heavy artillery was called for, you couldn’t beat a good catapult – but not in school. They took a deal of work to make properly, and confiscation was a real downer.
Don’t know what young people are coming to these days. They’ll want computer-controlled ones next.
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October 4, 2011 at 13:38 -
Ha! When nobut a lad I used to assiduously chip off match heads to make small rocket propelled missiles with nothing else but silver foil and a bit of coathanger wire.
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October 5, 2011 at 21:32 -
Why is it that people respond like this…
“Innovative and probably clever guy but with too much spare time.”
… when the demonstration of ability and intelligence produces something they don’t approve of?
Sometimes doing something, just for the fun of it, for the challenge against one’s self, is the noblest of pursuits. Or at least a hobby.
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