Inside a mild-mannered toy golf cup, the kind that pop the ball back at you when you sink a putt (and make you go walk for it when you miss), lurks a lethal weapon — a tiny rail gun just waiting to serve. Modder Jay took one of those induction coils to build himself a small but fierce turret, also using a little inspiration from the Serv O’Beer, an ioBridge module, two ballpoint pens, two wooden spoons, a coffee mug, and — the pièce de résistance — a Wiimote liberated from someone’s console. By twisting the controller left or right the weapon rotates accordingly, honing in on threatening textbooks and launching a screwdriver bit with deadly force. Alas, you can’t fire the turret by pressing a button on the controller, but that’s said to be entirely for safety reasons — we wouldn’t want some poor kid trying to play a little My Horse & Me and accidentally shooting themselves in the back.
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