[XCSSA] You'll shoot your eye out, kid!

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

Creating one of these has always been a dream of mine.. but I always pictured 
something more like an eight to ten coil, liquid cooled unit.  Maybe mount it 
on a truck bed with a large capacitor bank.  Although at those speeds.. using 
a PIC for firing control and even optical sensors may not be fast enough to 
control the coil firing and sheer acceleration.  (fraction of C)

For those not familiar with how these work.. here's a very simplified 
pictorial:
	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coilgun_animation.gif

<sigh>... yeah.. I'm not a truck person.. but I would buy a truck if I had the 
time and money to get into this. :)

Tweeks


On Friday 20 November 2009, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:

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