DIY: Paintball Panzer

What projects did you work on back in college? If you had a fraternity, what activities did you participate in? Will Foster from Kettering University in Michigan shows us what a college kid can do when you combine imagination, ambition, paintball, engineering and a very supportive environment: a paintball tank. Here are a few details:

• Size: half-scale Panzer replica powered by three-cylinder diesel engine
• Cost: current parts total around $2,000 but Foster estimates more than $10,000 was spent on trial-and-error engineering.
• Top speed: 20 mph
• Additional features: camouflaged wooden shell, working tread system, air cannon on a 360-degree turret that shoots varied munitions including golf balls and empty Red Bull cans.

This is pure genius, folks. It easily puts to shame of the projects that I did back in college. The most that I ever did was to single-handedly create a modular origami figure of a twenty-sided die. That’s nothing compared to a tank.

Source: MLive via Gadget Lab

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