{"id":523,"date":"2006-01-24T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/523"},"modified":"2006-01-24T08:06:21","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T08:06:21","slug":"multishot-pellet-gun-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/523","title":{"rendered":"Multishot pellet-gun trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docbug.com\/Traps\/pellet-gun-trap\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\"  style=\"margin-left: 10px\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" width=\"200px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.docbug.com\/Traps\/pellet-gun-trap\/fired.jpg\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>For over fifteen years my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/photobooks.com\/~j\/\">Jay<\/a> and I have exchange trapped presents at Christmas. When I say trapped I mean it in the classic <i>Circle of Death<\/i> game style \u2014 if you open the present carelessly a buzzer will sound or explosive cap will trigger.<\/p>\n<p>I usually focus on making it difficult to find and disarm a simple explosive-cap trap, but this year I wanted to change things up a bit and focus on the effect itself. In particular, I wanted to make a box trap that would shoot darts out in all directions, machine-gun style. It had to be completely mechanical (what can I say, I like the style better), and had to be stable enough to ship through the mail without going off or getting jammed. After many attempts I landed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docbug.com\/Traps\/pellet-gun-trap\/index.html\">this rather elegant sprung-hammer design<\/a> (click for video and construction notes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docbug.com\/Traps\/pellet-gun-trap\/index.html\"><img decoding=\"async\"  style=\"margin-left: 10px\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" width=\"200px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.docbug.com\/Traps\/pellet-gun-trap\/fired.jpg\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>For over fifteen years my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/photobooks.com\/~j\/\">Jay<\/a> and I have exchange trapped presents at Christmas. When I say trapped I mean it in the classic <i>Circle of Death<\/i> game style \u2014 if you open the present carelessly a buzzer will sound or explosive cap will trigger.<\/p>\n<p>I usually focus on making it difficult to find and disarm a simple explosive-cap trap, but this year I wanted to change things up a bit and focus on the effect itself. In particular, I wanted to make a box trap that would shoot darts out in all directions, machine-gun style. It had to be completely mechanical (what can I say, I like the style better), and had to be stable enough to ship through the mail without going off or getting jammed. After many attempts I landed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docbug.com\/Traps\/pellet-gun-trap\/index.html\">this rather elegant sprung-hammer design<\/a> (click for video and construction notes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}