Finally, a much cooler way to store your rubber band collection.
(Credit: Alex Shpetniy)
I had a rubber band gun when I was a kid. It was made from a scrap of wood and had all the shooting accuracy of a blueberry pancake. Nonetheless, it came in handy for the local kid-wars. If only I had access to the Rubber Band Machine Gun, I would have ruled the neighborhood.
The elastic-flinging device has already shot past its $5,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. Rubber-band Gatling guns have been created before, but the Kickstarter project creator has refined the concept and brought the price down to the $100 level.
The gun is built from birch plywood cut with a CNC machine. A small motor running on five AA batteries rotates the barrel when you pull the trigger. It propels bands up to 26 feet, releasing 14 per second.
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