Introduction Originally published: 2004 This is a brilliant launching device – simply due to the sound of the boom when fired! It doesn’t have much of a range when compared to the potato cannons but it does manage to launch a tennis ball about a hundred feet into the air. It also doesn’t have much … Continue reading Tennis Ball Mortar
Introduction Originally published: 2003 I had some parts lying around my bench and I had an idea for a mini combustion cannon. I had a plastic tube that fit plastic BB’s perfectly and a nicely sized pot for the combustion chamber that fits the hand nicely. This cannon works brilliantly with standard BB’s or even … Continue reading Mini Cannon
Introduction Originally published: 2002 After building my first combustion cannon I wanted to try a cannon that was slightly different. The pneumatic cannon works on the principal of using compressed air in a sealed chamber to be suddenly released to propel a potato rather than using the combustion of a propellant. This cannon was again … Continue reading Pneumatic Potato Cannon
Introduction Originally published: 2004 This was my second combustion potato cannon. It was a significant improvement in efficiency and size over the first cannon. The following content is from the original project page. This is my latest combustion cannon, and I have tried to make it as efficient as possible with a 0.8:1 barrel to … Continue reading Potato Cannon II
Introduction Originally published: 2001 This was my first potato cannon. It used basic solvent welded plastic pipe fittings from the local hardware store and I didn’t really consider the combustion chamber to barrel ratio in its design. It only took about an hour or so to put the thing together and I was well on … Continue reading Potato Cannon I