{"id":18556,"date":"2015-10-19T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/3d-printing-used-to-make-first-real-handheld-railgun-which-fires-plasma-projectiles-at-560-mph"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:30:19","slug":"3d-printing-used-to-make-first-real-handheld-railgun-which-fires-plasma-projectiles-at-560-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/3d-printing-used-to-make-first-real-handheld-railgun-which-fires-plasma-projectiles-at-560-mph","title":{"rendered":"3D printing used to make first real handheld railgun, which fires plasma projectiles at 560 mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9V7GVcRzTU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you think the image above looks frightening, you\u2019re right. The crazy contraption pictured in the image is the first portable railgun, a futuristic projectile launcher associated most commonly with the military or <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/nasa\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a>. The man in the image above isn\u2019t in the military, and he\u2019s not a NASA engineer. Instead, he\u2019s a civilian who used some engineering smarts, some widely available parts and a 3D printer to create a functioning weapon that can fire graphite, aluminum, tungsten and even plasma projectiles at speeds of more than 560 mph.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s the best part: There are videos of this homemade railgun in action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MUST READ: <a title=\"Permalink to The iPhone I couldn\u2019t live with\" href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2015\/10\/16\/iphone-6s-plus-review-preview-vs-iphone-6s\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The iPhone I couldn\u2019t live with<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Little is known about Imgur user \u201cNSA_Listbot\u201d beyond the fact that he\u2019s just short of being a wizard with AutoCAD and a 3D printer. The man took to Imgur over the weekend to share what may very well be one of the most amazing and terrifying DIY projects that has even been attempted. And he didn\u2019t just attempt it, he built it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/s\/3d-printing-used-first-real-handheld-railgun-fires-134325053.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think the image above looks frightening, you\u2019re right. The crazy contraption pictured in the image is the first portable railgun, a futuristic projectile launcher associated most commonly with the military or NASA. The man in the image above isn\u2019t in the military, and he\u2019s not a NASA engineer. Instead, he\u2019s a civilian who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,38,9,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-engineering","category-military","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63902,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions\/63902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}