How Do You Make A Simple Blowgun?

The blowgun is a simple, primitive weapon consisting of a tube loaded with darts. When the hunter blows into the tube, the darts fly out. Although traditional blowguns can be longer than a meter in length, you can make a simple one out of a pen and a few other objects you can find around the house.

Find a used-up Sharpie or other permanent marker. It should have a straight barrel for most of its length, and should be wide enough to stick a tack in. Remove the ink cartridge and cut off the tapered end of the barrel.

You can use an ordinary pocket knife or a small saw to make the cuts. This is now your blowgun. Glue a small piece of thin strand of wire over one end of the blowgun so that it bisects the tube.

This will stop the tack from accidentally sliding into your mouth and injuring you. Magnet wire will work well, but any thin bit of wire you have lying around will do. Make a mouthpiece.

Drill a small hole in a suction cup, put glue on the blowgun and slip it into the hole. This ... more.

Yeah, go for the Gauss gun. The railgun is going to need heavy duty capacitors with at least a few hundred volts potential difference to ramp up quickly enough and something on the order of several thousand microfarads to a farad to provide enough current, and those are expensive and unsafe to have around curious children. The caps I used for my amateur railgun (second sweetest project I have been allowed to attempt for a college course) were lethal when charged, and made me nervous.

I managed to get some sweet pulse capacitors on ebay, but eventually had to give up as my railgun project got too expensive. After about two months of work in my scant free time, I achieved a device that would jump metal or graphite projectiles a few centimeters along the rails before they fused to the rails. The projectiles (I think mass around 30g) moved too quickly for me to see them, which was great, but they didn't move far.

I needed some sort of injection system so that the projectiles wouldn't ... more.

Breeding chickens is usually not difficult, so long as your hens are laying. If you want them to continue laying eggs rather than roosting on the ones they have already laid, you need an incubator. There are some made by companies that work well, but you can make a simple incubator at home for much less money.

Cut a view port into a Styrofoam cooler. The Styrofoam cooler is the basis of your incubator. Measure a rectangle 8 1/2 inches tall and 11 inches long on the side of the cooler.

Use a pocket knife to cut the rectangle out and glue the glass from a frame into it. Install the incubator heater. Hold a single bulb lighting socket upside down on the cooler lid and trace around it with a pencil.

Cut the circle you traced with the knife and slide the fixture into the hole. Invert the cooler lid and screw a 15-watt light bulb into the socket. Install a thermometer and ventilation system to regulate your new incubator's temperature.

Tape a thermometer into the inside of the cooler so ... more.

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