Paintball minigun

[terryc]

Not strictly robot combat as we know it, but wouldnt it be great to have one of these http://www.remotelyinteresting.com/paintball%20minigun%20page.htmlhttp://www.remotelyinteresting.com/p...un%20page.html
mounted on a robot base.

[Kenny]

Paintball minigun

lol dont give tony ideas for his tank

[jamesb]

Paintball minigun

ive played airsoft against a bb minigun...
very impressive, but not much we can do against one man and 6000 bbs per minute (100 per second!!)
search youtube, there are similar bb miniguns on there

[terryc]

Paintball minigun

Sounds painfull if you get hit

[grant_ploughbot]

Paintball minigun

1200psi co2?

[grafix]

Paintball minigun

Well, a few points here. First, I have taken up paintball myself. I have even got my own marker ( its not called a gun. How sad of me to know that!). My gun ( SmartParts ION with ALL of the tweaks and goodies ) fires 17 BPS ( Balls Per Second ) at a max legal 300 Feet Per Second. That hurts! My marker has to have a power fed hopper to feed the balls.

Now, looking at that mini gun makes me ask 2 questions, every event bans totally all automatic weapons. Second, my gun uses gas (air, Co2 or nitrogen ) at 140psi (even less if the firebolt is fitted ( yep, I have that as well)) and to imagine a ball fired from 1500psi is unbelievable. Another question, how does one get Co2 to go to 1500psi?

Now, the big question, would I like that marker? hell yes! Would I fire it at people? Definatly no. Its dangerous. My marker will strip the skin of unprotected skin at short range. Imagine what that would do?

[terryc]

Paintball minigun

(robot base + minigun) Vs Boxer
Mike you have both, but whos going to win

[leorcc]

Paintball minigun

With so much pressure behind it i can imagine a lot of the balls bursting before exiting the barrel.

[maddox]

Paintball minigun

Then you have a large spray can, not a marker.

A possible way of working on unregulated CO2 for a full automatic marker is to use a very small let trough. But even then I see problems.