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Some of the best hand built lasers and guns you’ll ever see

January 7, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Laser Gadgets seems to be a little known site and YouTube channel. This might be because you get a no nonsense, no razzle dazzle, presentation of the final product. Patrick Priebe, however, is one of the best builders I follow online.…

10 ideas for new Ingress items

December 31, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

Ingress is the augmented reality game from Niantic that came before Pokemon. It’s less random, has only two factions and a great community. One of the clever things Niantic got right was to introduce sponsored items rather than adverts to the game play.…

Kick-ass Disney princesses with weapons

June 25, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Deviant artist Jessica Madorran, aka Meo Mai, is an American character artist. Her collection of Disney characters juxtaposed with fierce looking weapons is fantastic. The good news she takes commissions at sensible rates.…

Here’s how you can make a bow and set of arrows using natural tools

March 24, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you been following Primitive Technology? The one man series shows how you can start off with nothing except the woods you are sitting in and build shelter and weapons. We already have some tools at the start of this video.…

Enough science to magic up an ice sword

February 29, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you wielded an ice sword in an RPG or watched an anime where one was summoned? The scientific problem is pretty straight forward. The solution; toilet paper. It’s just possible that after this video from Sufficiently Advanced gamer groups around the world will be adding Pykrete to their vocabulary and list of ways to surprise GMs.…

Made real: The gun from Psycho-Pass stuns

July 22, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I rather enjoyed Psycho Pass. At a first glance it is set in a wonderful future in which the police leave you entirely alone because they can tell who’s guilty. At a second glance things get dark quickly.…

Crazy home invention: 40W laser shotgun

June 14, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This shotgun is many times more powerful than the lightsaber styropyro had already built. As Chris Mills over at Gizmodo points out a 40 watt laser is hugely more powerful than the 0.005 watt lasers you can buy from stores but still a far off the US Navy’s prototype cannon that blasts at 30,000 watts.…

Explaining the Archer’s Paradox to younger gamers

May 30, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Archer’s Paradox is this; there’s a bow between your arrow and your target so how come the arrow goes straight? Slow motion and some science can explain this. While the folk at Smarter Every Day didn’t intend for this video to be aimed at games (oh, pun), I think we’re a good audience and I think gamer kids will be especially interested.…

How to build a fully operational gas rifle out of pipes and propane

May 22, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In this video the Backyard Scientist uses every day items to build a series of rifles. Are they powerful? By the time the video finishes we’re able to launch golf balls further than the video can track and we’re blasting holes in beer cans.…

Have we got archery all wrong?

January 23, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 17 Comments

It’s been a few years since Geek Native asked do RPG designers need to rethink archery mechanics?. At time Danish archer Lars Andersen was in focus. He’s back again with this video.…

Some of the best hand built lasers and guns you’ll ever see

10 ideas for new Ingress items

Kick-ass Disney princesses with weapons

Here’s how you can make a bow and set of arrows using natural tools

Enough science to magic up an ice sword

Made real: The gun from Psycho-Pass stuns

Crazy home invention: 40W laser shotgun

Explaining the Archer’s Paradox to younger gamers

How to build a fully operational gas rifle out of pipes and propane

Have we got archery all wrong?

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