Laser Guided Slingshot!

I get tons of requests all the time

To make things, like, A sling shot!

We've all made one out of a tree branch,

But eh, this is lame!

Time for an upgrade!

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Kip Kay Presents

A Laser Guided Slingshot

The Crossbar of our slingshot

Will be made out of 3/4 inch Aluminum square tube.

Now, Don't worry, because there will be detailed

Instructions on KipKay.com on how to build this thing

I'm going to make a couple of marks a half inch from

each end of this aluminum tube, and then one in the center using my Sharpie

Now to the garage, where I'm going to drill a hole in all three spots, al the way through.

We're also going to need a couple of machine bolts

These are about 6 inches long, and they're going to go through

The end holes. We're going to add a lock washer and a nut to each of these bolts.

Be sure to tighten your nuts up good with a wrench

I hunted around at an auto-parts store, and found this very cool

Aluminum Shifter, and its got a very special feature, which I'll show you later.

We'll need one more bolt to go through the center of our tube

And I chose a flat screwdriver head bolt

And again another lock washer and nut to secure this in place.

Now its time to add our shifter handle over the insert

that came with it, and then using an allen wrench

we'll tighten that up, and secure the trim ring

Our laser guided slingshot body is almost done.

Now we need some slingshot bands.

I picked these up because they were inexpensive, and very well built.

You could use rubber bands, and a piece of leather

But I'd use these, they work and look better.

Stretch and pull those over both bolts to hold in place.

And now its time for the laser. I'm using a very small,

6MM red laser diode in a housing, with a driver

There's links in the description of this video

For the slingshot bands, and a laser.

To power it, a small twin, AA battery pack

It has a nice, handy switch on it

I drilled a small hole the size of the laser on one side of the cross beam

And then a smaller hole on the other side for the wires.

I secured the laser in place with a little epoxy from the inside

Then I trimmed and hooked up the wires to the battery pack,

Which was velcro'ed to the cross beam

Now its time to test it out.

Well, I didn't have any slingshot amo

All I had were BB's, these are way too small to use

So I'm going to use my favorite snack: Pistachios!

But, not just any pistachios, these are wonderful pistachios.

They're just the right size

And they pack a powerful punch... Of Flavor

Oh, and remember the cool features I was telling you about?

The handle has a secret compartment, the bottom unscrews

And it gives you space to put your ammo.

The red dot laser definitely helped with accuracy

I fired it at this target

Pretty funny, but the shell actually protected the crunchy nut, and kept it intact.

Can't let that crunchy goodness go to waste!

So let's fire this again!

This is the only ammo you can eat

I'm observing the 5 second rule

If you don't know what that is, ask somebody

I also tested it outside to see what kind of range I could get

This thing fires pretty far

So there you have it, a home made, laser guided sling shot

So in addition to wonderful pistachios, what you use for ammo in your slingshot?

Get creative and leave a comment telling us.

Now get cracking, and make a laser guided slingshot for yourself.

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Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time!

Subtitles by Mason Curry.