Paintball Mini-gun on hackaday

[Glickman]

http://www.hackaday.com/2006/11/17/paintball-minigun/

[Dirge]

That is cool!!

[Cow hunter]

i thought i was the only one on AO who read hackaday...


anyway, thats freakin cool

[JaKaL]

good lord.

coolest.

paintball.

gun.

ever...

[NoLifeLeft]

Now the big question... How to feed it?

[FARMER00]

Now the big question... How to feed it?

forget the paintballs just pour a bucket of paint right into it lol thats the only way i could see that working

[VFX_Fenix]

Tippmann made it work, and theirs had 10 barrels.

You can see from the photos that are on the guy's home page that the thing has an angled feed port for each barrel in the middle retaining ring. If he's made the length of that port the propper length paint should just stack in it and if he's using a force feed system, like a Warp or HALO, then there shouldn't be any problems with blending either.

[javasnot17]

Yeah, my friends and I saw that vid a couple of days ago at work. First, I thought....cool.......then, WTF? Then laughed.

[dahoeb]

cool minigun, never saw that before, is there a video of it?
.......

[VFX_Fenix]

http://www.remotelyinteresting.com/paintball%20minigun%20page.html

Ask and ye shall recieve

EDIT: It should also be noted that this guy is a profesional prop designer and has worked on several big films (Spider Man 2, MIB 1 & 2, Doom, and A.I. among them).