After seeing the working mini cannon on YouTube myself (preauxphoto) and Gregabyte started talking about how much fun it would be to have one (for purely scientific research of course.) I began to think that maybe it wasn’t a pipe dream and it might be possible. I began to look around and found us some 1″ brass round stock. From there it was just some time at the lathe and mill. Within an hour, we had a working prototype. Though it is about 4 times the size of the one in the video, it’s still fun. It measures 1.5″ in total length, 1″at its widest and 3/4″ at it’s smallest. It is designed to take 1/4″ steel ball bearings and a 2mm fuse. Though the first couple of shots were less than spectacular, we will see if we can get near the awesomeness of the one in the video. Updated with more pictures after the break.
