Handheld TESLA COIL GUN at 28,000fps
 

Its people like this quietly tinkering in their garages that gives me hope about alot of things. :munchin

Check this out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fTC_Ud_k3U

See the designers garage lab? Give THAT guy a weapons program! :D

Awesome..

I see a lot of future Jr 18C's running to the kit shop..

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Take my money!

I want one. :D

Holy crap, looking at that, I say to myself "This is what FREEDOM looks like". :lifter:lifter

True to form some G'vt POS will see this and say, that must be registered and regulated.

35NCO,

I would think that this is the sort of "garage lab" that DARPA should be looking for. :cool:

SnT

Let me nerd out for a moment....
 

My wife asked if it was illegal to make. I stated no, because lawmakers have not dreamt of such common existence of power weapons yet.

There is another video of a kid with a rechargeable, portable, shoulder fired, full auto coil gun with very reasonable terminal ballistics in pistol range. Laws discuss gunpowder, not electricity. You are not wrong it is only a matter of time. Moores law says it will be quite shortly from now that lethal power weapons will be easy to make at home and common.

Those that complain of the Sci-fi promises of our childhoods not being here now should consider that we live in a time that a quick search on youtube shows people are building laser weapons, rail guns, and coil guns in their free tinkering time with reclaimed junk and scrap. Teenage children are building atomic devices that took Oppenheimer years to devise.

People are decrypting, understanding and replicating the work of Tesla in their garage...

We are not getting dumber. We are disseminating, learning, and applying faster than ever before.

Add this to consider the brief moment of time that people have even existed, with the incredibly short period since we have started harnessing technoligies and innovation, to the moment we are now. Carl Sagan discussed that galaxies are billions of years old, we just built all this human stuff in the last few seconds of time.

Picture what is to be another thousand or ten thousand years from now. We will be medieval or the stoneage to our future humans.

When you realize what we are witnessing, it is amazing. In some ways even disturbing.

I am a firm believer, based on the above, that it has all happened many times before. How could it not have? People are alive currently that remember the very recent 1930's and that world is already unrecognizable today.

Love to see this kind of stuff. If the "gun" developer was inspired by watching film of Tesla with his arcs in a room, and the video-maker keeps sharing his joy & imagination with little kids in his garage, there is hope to foster another generation of something besides nose-ringed thumb-boys.

Thanks for sharing that.

sigh...selection/availability/confirmation bias taking place I am sure. I would replace "we" with "some of us." In my neck of woods, I am seeing near irreversible trajectory towards idiocracy :(

Doesn't seem terribly accurate. I wonder if it's possible to pre-ionize a path to overcome the resistance of the "air gap", without having to use a wire (e.g. TASER), so it could be aimed.

Correctly me if I'm wrong,,,

1)the wire is a sacrificial conductor. Like the anodes on boat engines.When a charge "escapes" it will cause material to flow with it? similar to a plating process??

2)the path has more to do with the atmospheric environment,, what ever combination of O2 & H2O,, POS & NEG ions,, that will causes normal lightening applies to the coil discharge??

:munchin

Here is some other garage experimenters:


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/19...l-muslims.html

I guess if the mind can imagine it, someone will find a way.

Thats one way to look at it. I am not sure anymore. The one side is to assume all the crazy emotional stuff we see that upsets us is how it is everywhere and its all negative. But then again there are an awful lot of people on this planet. As I get older I wonder about what the true ratio of the lesser intelligence to the clever, to the genius really is. Not nessasarily educated either, because there are plently of people without formal education that are thriving just fine. Its a hard thing to measure.

I think our perception is about whom we surround ourselves with to create our own normalcy and then form opinions on that baseline. Operating outside that is where its easy for us to stop listening. For me, at one time I wanted to be the smartest person in the room. Teenager to young twenties...Then realized the fallacies in never being able to develop from not being challenged. Recognizing what it is for what it is when some folks blow you away and others are less stimulating may not mean what we think it means. Sometimes its not right to beleive what we think.

I recognize that I am completely guilty of reporting drama that in every sense is pointless at times. I am trying to get to the point to see that there is something from everyone and everyone has a different thing in life that we may not be as good at, or can learn another perspective. The why.

Sorta like, the ancient Egyptians could not have built the pyramids without ancient aliens...ext. Not really, "people are smart and capable and always have been. We seem to always figure things out." A man with zero education once told me that. Even before all we know now people did amazing things. Its learning to accept that without the extravagant, magical or emotional.

Politics...IMO, they seem to have no association to intelligence as much as I would think they do. Its a completely seperate thing. If thats what you refer to. It still gets me uncontrollably spun up at times as well...

FWIW, It is bias, because I felt like saying something positive because it spoke to me in a positive way. Seeing people do something interesting to me.

All that said, Now lets get in our shops and develop a new power weapon! :D:lifter

I do not know enough about it yet to say one way or another. However, challenge accepted. ;)

I have had a discussion in the past with friends far more intelligent than I, about the feasibility of using lasers with projectiles of certian metalurgical properties to change the atmospere around them to artificially change atmosphere for ballistic applications.

I suppose it could be applied here. I see the tesla coils could be used for more of a psychological weapon. A lighteningvolt "flamethrower" on the battlefield would be terrifying to those who witness it.

At the end of the day, our shortage is making lots of power in small packages. We need more development there.

With highpower lasers, overpenatration is also a huge problem to solve for weapons application on killing power and anti-armor.

It sparked the image in me of using rail, laser or coil guns where the capacitor would one day be the ejecting "cartridge case". With the direction of technologies, I would see that as our first practical application. We one day will be ejecting batteries and not brass.