In the spirit of community outreach and STEM education, I have been volunteering with high schoolers for the past six years in an extracurricular program where we have the students prototype and then ...
Few things capture the attention of physics students like a gun that fires Ping-Pong balls, according to a mechanical engineer who just built one that accelerates the balls to supersonic speeds. “You ...
If you're looking for some good, clean—albeit semi-reckless—fun this weekend, you can't beat taking some household items and assembling them into a combustion-based ping-pong ball gun. If you've ever ...
The warning at the end of this clip, by Purdue University professor Mark French, is "Do not try this at home." Yeah, right. French and his ME students are demonstrating a de Laval nozzle using a Ping ...
Next time you’re in a Nerf gun battle, you better hope you’ve got this absurdly powerful ping pong ball gun. It shoots common celluloid spheres at over 400 meters per second, or Mach 1.2. This ping ...