Railgun

Dude builds world’s first semi-automatic portable railgun, uses it to kill a laptop

October 12th, 2017

Mike Wehner

A couple of years ago, a Imgur user by the name of NSA_Listbot showed off one of the most impressive DIY creations ever attempted: an actual handheld, portable railgun. Its ability to fire plasma projectiles at speeds topping 550 mph was an incredible accomplishment. So, what’s the builder of the first handheld railgun do to …

3D printing used to make first real handheld railgun, which fires plasma projectiles at 560 mph

October 19th, 2015

Zach Epstein

If you think the image above looks frightening, you’re right. The crazy contraption pictured in the image is the first portable railgun, a futuristic projectile launcher associated most commonly with the military or NASA. The man in the image above isn’t in the military, and he’s not a NASA engineer. Instead, he’s a civilian who used some …