dactylothecaPost your favorite improvised doohickeys (incl. vehicles)
someguy3I had no idea the Shinzo Abe thing was a doohickey. I take it that’s not a regular bullet? How did it work?
I went digging and found this fairly detailed article on it armamentresearch.com/craft-produced-firearm-used-…
The dude had more doohickeys too! This picture of a cop holding one looks cyberpunk as fuck:
Craft-produced firearm used to assassinate Shinzo Abe - Armament Research Services (ARES)
N.R Jenzen-Jones & Patrick Senft Around 1130 hrs local time on 8 July 2022, former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe (Abe Shinzō; 安倍 晋三), was shot in Nara, Japan, with a craft-produced (‘privately made’) firearm. Videos of the shooting suggest that the assailant was within a few metres of the former Prime Minister when
Probably the most prominent electric firing mechanism for 3D-printed firearms has been developed by the user ‘@SuckBoyTony1’. This mechanism uses an 80 kV High Voltage Pulse Generator that converts 6–12 V (the electric potential typically provided by battery packs such as that seen with the assailant’s weapon) into 80 kV. This high voltage creates a hot plasma arc between two conductive contacts that can be used to ignite flammable materials
What’s with this level of overengineering? Just get the Piezo from lighter and good.
I’d guess people have tried those small piezos and they haven’t worked too well (not a big enough spark?), or at least it seems likely most would start from the simplest possible solution. I’d definitely have started with a piezo too if I was screwing around building a zip gun (which I’m definitely not doing)