Rubber Band Minigun - 11 shots/second

[Sariel]

When they come for your hamsters, you may want one of these:

Pics and description are coming to my website shortly. I believe the gun can be recreated from the video alone if you try hard enough.

[Saberwing40k]

Awesome. I particularly liked the horse head mask.

[D3K]

Pretty clever mechanism!

A little dissapointed that there wasn't any live target testing, seeing as you seem to a lot of them

[shadowhearth]

Cool, and like always very clever, but I do have to admit. I was a bit disappointed that it was shooting rubber bands, not Lego bricks.

[Doc_Brown]

Really awesome! Looks the part too, with sweet performance. :thumbup:

[dr_spock]

Cool. Gunnery hamster and it doesn't look too hard to reverse engineer. Are you going to shoot anyone asking for full instructions?

[jantjeuh]

So, how about them full instructions? Don't be lazy.

Nice MOC both in terms of functionality and looks, but seems like it takes a while to reload though, which might negatively affect its playability. Have yet to see a Lego gun address that, but I guess it can't be helped.

Edited December 23, 2013 by jantjeuh

[skppo]

So there isn't a way to spin the barrel without shooting? I mean the barrel doesn't go straight to full speed

so you shoot a few bands slower.

Now go and mount it on a vehicle!

[Sariel]

Don't be lazy.

If I was lazy, this video would end in 2 minutes without showing how a single piece works.

So there isn't a way to spin the barrel without shooting? I mean the barrel doesn't go straight to full speed

It goes straight to full speed, as you can see at 3:29. But you can slow it down with the knob at its side if you wish,

[FrankenPC]

The comment about "coming for your hamsters" won my attention. The horse head won my heart :D

[Balrog]

I really like it a lot. Finally your hamsters get the "tools" to take over the world! Next up: Hamster-driven and -operated Nuke launcher!

[jantjeuh]

If I was lazy, this video would end in 2 minutes without showing how a single piece works.

Obviously, I was joking ;-)

Maybe an idea for a future MOC, a Lego gun that's really fast to reload with rubber bands.

Edited December 23, 2013 by jantjeuh

[aol000xw]

These guns always amaze me. How is people willing to spend 20 times the firing time loading it!

Anyways really nice design, cool skull.

Edited December 23, 2013 by aol000xw

[D3K]

These guns always amaze me. How is people willing to spend 20 times the firing time loading it!

I don't know if you have any experience, but that is actually pretty much how guns are in real life. As an example, loading a 30 round magazine for your typical M4/M16 rifle by hand, is both time consuming and hard on your fingers. Not having any experience with rotary rapid fire weaponry, I can only assume that the time spent loading and preparing, is fairly long compared to the time spent shooting

Edited December 23, 2013 by D3K

[Lakop]

Very clever. Just shows what you can do with lego. Make you own whatever.

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[dr_spock]

These guns always amaze me. How is people willing to spend 20 times the firing time loading it!

Anyways really nice design, cool skull.

The fun of shooting is worth the load time. You can always pay someone to load for you.

[aol000xw]

The fun of shooting is worth the load time. You can always pay someone to load for you.

Hmm a version 2 with magazines perhaps?

[Sariel]

The photos and description are here, as promised: http://sariel.pl/2013/12/minigun/