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The stupid things I buy

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http://www.pocketcannons.com

I'm a sucker for gadgets! If it looks fun I have a hard time stopping myself from buying it.
This will be on my doorstep next week. Can't wait to fire this thing off.

Anyone have a cool gadget the purchased(or intend too) that they would like to share?
 
Cool! I know a few people who'd love one of these. Post how you like it once it comes....

Not sure if you'd consider it "cool" but I've had my eye on one of these lately :awesome:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/141219166601
 
Neat! When I was a kid I drilled out a souvenir cannon from Gettysburg National Park and fired 1/4" ball bearings using scavenged firecrackers. Worked pretty well for a few rounds, but being made of brass and not steel it started to bend, so I decided to scrap it before it scrapped me!
 
@Christian: so far -- a 4X5 pinhole camera, miscellaneous hardware for a plumbing project, a custom bocal for our Yamaha WX ewi (ewi = electronic wind instrument. See: http://usa.yamaha.com/products/music-production/midi-controllers/wx5/?mode=model ), a bracket to mount to the ceiling of the camper so you can slip an iPad into it and watch telly when in bed, an assortment of tool holders for a tool pegboard, of which the "Goat Hook" is my favorite: http://www.twobraids.com/2014/04/pegboard-tool-storage-goat-hook.html
Many other things I can't remember.....we've been playing with this thing for nearly 2 years now.
 
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Love it!!!

 
Awesome! :) Great pic of it in action too
 
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Stupid crap I've bought? Well a couple weekends ago I bought this huge lot of Player Piano rolls! Most are dated from the 1930s.

And no, I don't own a player piano, there is an apple orchard out in western MN who still has a working model.

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Pocket cannon, eh? I have a cousin who used to work at a foundry, Alamo Iron Works. He took a large piece of billet steel and made a cannon that is about I guess, three feet long, and the barrel diameter is about that of a beer can. He does not shoot projectiles, but on New Years and other holidays he fires it off. Quite the report, and if you are standing behind it, quite the shock wave. No pictures, though.:(
 
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That pocket cannon is really neat. Quite a projectile weapon...

Also 3D printers are intense.
 
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Whimgrinder said:
I have one of these: http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2 Does that count? :-O
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that is awesome. I could make alot of cool things with that machine!

divaskid said:
Awesome! :) Great pic of it in action too
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it would be the best gift you could give you could give someone!

Eric_N said:
Bought one of these on a whim a couple of weeks ago. :D
http://www.brookstone.com/rover-20-app-controlled-spy-tank
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i had one of these. my dog hated!

pearldiver said:
Pocket cannon, eh? I have a cousin who used to work at a foundry, Alamo Iron Works. He took a large piece of billet steel and made a cannon that is about I guess, three feet long, and the barrel diameter is about that of a beer can. He does not shoot projectiles, but on New Years and other holidays he fires it off. Quite the report, and if you are standing behind it, quite the shock wave. No pictures, though.:(
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i would love to make my own. I just have to find a lathe big enough.
 
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For some reason I am a container freak, so the stupid things I buy include a lot of tins with artwork, decorative jars, little wooden craft boxes, empty cigar boxes (though a lot of those are empty because I smoked them. :p), etc. Also shelving with drawers or boxes with lids. Most get used, but not usually in the most efficient way.
 
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Zath said:
For some reason I am a container freak, so the stupid things I buy include a lot of tins with artwork, decorative jars, little wooden craft boxes, empty cigar boxes (though a lot of those are empty because I smoked them. :p), etc. Also shelving with drawers or boxes with lids. Most get used, but not usually in the most efficient way.
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love your avator. Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi?

do you keep mantid? I had a huge collection before cps.
 
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Jcal said:
love your avator. Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi?

do you keep mantid? I had a huge collection before cps.
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I have to confess I don't know. I only know the umbrella name "Flower Mantis".

I've kept a number of arthropods and invertebrates over the years, but nothing too exotic. The most exotic pet I had was a *racking my brain for the name* Chilean red-legged tarantula? It wasn't the big mexican rosehair, it was an arboreal tree spider.

My prized insect for over two years however was a black widow I kept in a 2.5 gal. aquarium on my coffee table. Such neat spiders, and easy to maintain. :p
 
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that is the spiny flower mantis (Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi)
mantis are very interesting pets. very mythodical in their movements. starting to miss my babies!
 
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Ok so I've been at it again. I found this on amazon and had to have it



Then I got the idea to make some hoax pics. More of those to come later....

 
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