Explore a DIY electronics project where a homemade Gauss rifle is built using coils, capacitors, and electromagnetic pulses.

An electromagnetic coil gun is a type of weapon that uses an electromagnetic launch coil or a series of launch coils to accelerate a ferromagnetic projectile. The goal of this article is to help you ...

A common complaint in the comments of many a Hackaday project is: Why did they use a microcontroller? It’s easy to Monday morning quarterback someone else’s design, but it’s rare to see the OP come ...

[Drew Pilcher] needed durable, custom-wound coils with no core, and perfectly flat sides. Coils can be wound by hand, of course, but reliably creating perfect coils with thin wire and lots of layers ...