So, quick status report before I sleep. I haven’t been getting enough sleep, so I’m kind of wiped out right now.  My day went like this: school, talk to professor, eat, school, work on next iteration of coilgun, break an ott light, eat greasy food, go to a concert, made a smoothie, and tried to […]

As noted before, Ze Local Awesome-blowing-stuff-up club, of which I’m the Benevolent Dictator for Life, has created the initial iteration of a coilgun. Behold! I can already hear the complaints about the lack of video of the thing actually firing, but I have an excuse: our benevolent email-writer for life, managed to kill a vital […]

So, the coilgun fires! I will (hopefully) post with more information soon.