Some Sunday Links
How to make your own Gauss pistol. An utterly awesome but scary thought. However to allay fears, the built gun is equivalent to a air pistol in power. It is a pretty neat project and he plans on providing kits and plans to make the gun. Currently the site doesn’t have much information about how you actually build the gun. It has a fair few pictures and a decent amount of explanation. Probably enough that you could build it if you had a pretty good handle on physics and the like. It isn’t a rail gun however, it is a coil gun.
And I quote:From HVWiki: “Coil Gun: A device that accelerates a ferromagnetic projectile using a coil of wire and a pulsed power source, usually capacitors. A large current is put through the coil, making it magnetic and attracting the ferromagnetic projectile. When the projectile passes through the coil, the current switches off and the coil loses its magnetism, allowing the projectile to keep going“.
One other rather nice website that has caught my eye recently, is the art of science website. It is from Princeton university in America and it is a exhibition of images, videos and sounds all gathered from the pursuit and research of science. The range of media is wide and quite stunning. I’ve always been a fan of electron microscope images, this one is particulary nice.
Quite a while has passed since I last updated this. I’m hoping to get back in the saddle, so hopefully you’ll hear something from me this weekend.