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Crash Testing LEGO Cars with an Air Cannon

Not long ago we watched a video of a LEGO Porsche being strapped to a real crash test sled and smashed into an obstacle. The LEGO Porsche was thoroughly destroyed in the test. Now we have another LEGO car being crushed into blocky bits after being fired out of some sort of air cannon.

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This Pneumatic Robot Dog Runs Like Its on Crank

What is it about scientists creating terrifying robot dogs? Meet the latest mechanical mutt, who goes by the name PneuHound. It is a pneumatic-powered quadruped being developed at Osaka University‘s Adaptive Robotics Laboratory by Koh Hosoda and his team.

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DIY GoPro Cannon: Be a Cannonball

Action cameras let us see through the eyes of athletes, daredevils, and professionals, including human cannonballs. If you’d like to record that unique point of view without risking your life, check out Eclectical Engineering’s debut project.

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DIY 3D Printed Portable Hybrid Railgun: Harder to Obtain than Sleeper Simulant

The railgun is one of the most popular sci-fi weapons, perhaps eclipsed only by the lightsaber and anything with lasers on it. Part of its appeal is that it’s based on real physics. It could exist, and it does exist!

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Sticky Actuators Use Air to Move Inanimate Objects: Noobmatics

A group of researchers from the MIT and the University of Tokyo managed to breathe life into everyday objects with a cheap and easy-to-use pneumatic device. They call their invention the Sticky Actuator, a small plastic pouch that moves objects when air is pumped in or out of it.

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Awesome Dad Builds a Pneumatic Tube System to Send Teeth to the Tooth Fairy

The Tooth Fairy is one busy lady! She flies from house to house every night, collecting teeth that kids have left under their pillows and leaving a dollar or two (or a special surprise) in exchange for it.

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Pneupard Robotic Leopard Not as Fast as Robotic Cheetah

We’ve seen plenty of robots based on animal designs. Nature knows what it is doing after all. Researchers, much like leopards, don’t change their spots. They are still working on robot designs that will run us down and devour us.

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Pneumatic Tool Lamps: Nailed It.

Are you handy with tools? Well you could head to your workshop and make yourself a lamp, I suppose, or you could buy one that’s actually made out of a power tool.

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Guy Actually Builds a Better Mousetrap

How many times have you heard the phrase “build a better mousetrap,” yet nobody seems to have actually done it? Until now. This modern, high-tech mousetrap is sure to crush the bones of tiny rodentia with greater efficiency and style than ever before.

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Lethal Pneumatic Ping Pong Gun: ‘Nuff Said.

MAKE magazine fan/artist/inventor/sculptor/prototyper/modern da Vinci Ron Kissinger built an air-powered gun that turns ping pong balls into balls of fury. The gun has a magazine that can fire up to 14 shots. It takes a few seconds to load the ammo – i.e.

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Web Gun Catches Thieves Just Like Flies

Why should cops need to zap suspects with dangerous Tazers when they could just catch fleeing criminals using a powerful Spiderman-like web-slinging device instead? The NET-2000 Shooting Net Rod uses a charge of highly compressed air to fire a net at fleeing suspects from as far as 49 feet away.

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Crash Testing LEGO Cars with an Air Cannon

This Pneumatic Robot Dog Runs Like Its on Crank

DIY GoPro Cannon: Be a Cannonball

DIY 3D Printed Portable Hybrid Railgun: Harder to Obtain than Sleeper Simulant

Sticky Actuators Use Air to Move Inanimate Objects: Noobmatics

Awesome Dad Builds a Pneumatic Tube System to Send Teeth to the Tooth Fairy

Pneupard Robotic Leopard Not as Fast as Robotic Cheetah

Pneumatic Tool Lamps: Nailed It.

Guy Actually Builds a Better Mousetrap

Lethal Pneumatic Ping Pong Gun: ‘Nuff Said.

Web Gun Catches Thieves Just Like Flies

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