Showing posts with label Rubber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rubber. Show all posts

Monday, August 29, 2011

That's No Rubber Band Gun. This Is a Rubber Band Gun. [Video]

That's No Rubber Band Gun. This Is a Rubber Band Gun.The nice man explaining the in's and out's of this slingshot cannon looks and sounds exactly like he did the other day when I was imagining what slingshot cannon aficionados might look and sound like. This is not an insult.

If it were, I'd no doubt be pavement paste by now, my head and body smashed to a smear by metal projectiles hurled at me from afar by a slingshot cannon that is nothing like the meager, eye-poking variety you may have constructed in class or during a particularly harrowing workplace meeting. This one kills.

Not people, yet, but automobiles and beer cans certainly, as this video (complete with high-speed camera footage) shows.

All that power is provided by 24 Thera Band Gold exercise bands and some solid woodworking. Maybe a little madness too, but you didn't hear that from me. [technabob]

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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Screw Rugged and Waterproof Cameras. Give Me This Silicone Rubber Bouncy Cam [Video]

Screw Rugged and Waterproof Cameras. Give Me This Silicone Rubber Bouncy Cam It's an ordinary camera lined with Sugru silicone rubber, which is kind of like clay but also sorta like duct tape. Once attached to something, Sugru sets itself permanently. Like this camera. Watch it roll around on the street.

You can actually make your own Sugru camera and because of its soft-touch rubber silicone-esque properties, it bounces around and absorbs shock quite well. I'm not sure it'll survive a 10-story drop but if you gave your accident-prone kid this camera, it should be able to handle his butterfinger-laced hands. [Instructables via Laughing Squid]

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