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Next in our series of “may be painful, definitely fun” do-it-yourself projects is the Q-Tip gun. I don’t know why the first two of these have been wepons but, boy, are they fun.

I manages to throw one of these together in about 10 minutes with things that I would find on an ambulance (plastic saline vial, pen tube, cotton swab, tape, pen-knife / scissors) and a $3 BBQ lighter. For propellant you can use just about any aerosol or the butane in the BBQ lighter. I like Binaca breath spray because the metered spray is just the right amount, it burns cleanly, and it smells pretty

It may not be useful but it’s an easy way to kill some time while sitting on a corner somewhere. Get a few of these together and start a war. The best part of the design is its simplicity. It can be modified to fire any number of things and it can be refined over the course of a few test firings. Here’s another example if you have some ambition.

If you hurt yourself or someone else with this thing, don’t blame me. You are all old enough to know better than to make something like this. Oh, if you do make one send us some pictures and we’ll post them on the site.

Via Make

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I bet that if you look around your crew room or station you can find the following items and make your very own set of (questionably safe and questionably legal) taser gloves: kitchen gloves, aluminum foil, some wire, a disposable camera and some batteries.

What does this have to do with emergency services? Probobaly nothing, except for the fact that fashioning a pair of these may be the most fun you have with 20 bucks at work that doesn’t involve starting bumfights. I would think twice before waking your partner up for a coffee run with one of these babies; according to the Instructables article it has, “a 300 volt standard mode, and a supercharged jolt that is ‘much more painful.’”

Via Gizmodo

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