Gatling Paintball Gun

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Senior Design Project for a group of mechanical engineering students.

This video has gotten a lot of negative criticism from people that think they know what they're talking about and I have some things to say about that.

Guess what: everyone in the group got an A for the project work.

Here's why: No matter what you think you know about paintball, you probably don't know anything about actually building a paintball gun, let alone a GATLING paintball gun. Furthermore we were building one under the following conditions:
A.)Limited time: We had a little less than four months (the semester began in January and ended at the beginning of May) to design, manufacture, build, and troubleshoot a rather complex device. Most companies don't even do that in a 1.5 years, let alone less than four months.
B.)Limited funds: This point isn't as important as the other conditions, but it isn't like we had the backing of a multi-million dollar company. In fact, we had less money than most people spend on their guns.
C.)Custom parts: Nearly everything on that gun was custom made. We couldn't just go out and buy the parts we needed.
D.)Experience: this and point A. probably had the most influence on our project. Just imagine designing, building, and troubleshooting something like this AND it's your first time doing any such thing. We were college students with more or less no experience doing anything of this sort.
Furthermore, to add to point D., of six people on the team, only one had ever played paintball (me) or handled a paintball gun.

If you think about all these things for a minute, you'll probably realize that we did well (we got A's after all). I could certainly be wrong but I think someone familiar with the design of paintball guns (who actually works for a company like AGD) would probably be reasonably impressed given the conditions we were working in.

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: April 23, 2007 at 4:59 am
Author: z7e1r3o

Length: 00:04:47
Rating: 3.99
Views: 577908

Tags: paintball TTU gatling gun engineering senior design

Video Comments:
KQ6WQ (October 7, 2008 at 2:47 am)
2:15 for opening titles???
Look this is a video about your project, not Gone With The Wind...
Next time 15 seconds for titles and then get ot the meat of the video...
ahmology (October 6, 2008 at 11:01 pm)
i dont know but isnt the barrels abit wide or the pressure abit low??
BarnBum111 (October 6, 2008 at 10:59 pm)
the gun and everything wuz sick but the shooting should be a bit better but still am not going 2 talk shit bout it cuz making tht thing must be fuckin hard
eclecticzebra1 (October 6, 2008 at 8:47 am)
I think the tolerance on the barrels is just too large
blackzerebra (October 6, 2008 at 5:50 am)
It was a fucking project for an engineering university...it isnt meant to be a great gun, it was to prov that it could be done...
fishyfish777 (October 6, 2008 at 12:15 am)
HOLY SHIT NICE!

Now, you should have just painted the drill to make it look nicer, and added a grip or two, but NICE.
MMOLegend (October 5, 2008 at 11:44 pm)
And whats the use of a giant lug gun like that...So Jessie the Body Ventura can play painball...Complete waste of time...I would not be cought dead operating that pos
npmotohead (October 5, 2008 at 8:09 pm)
for a protype wow congrats you guys gota post the final product of gpg after u get the bugs workd out keep up good work
slapshot5O (October 5, 2008 at 7:16 am)
fuck
tsugoi20 (October 5, 2008 at 5:51 am)
Nice engineering exercise, but I wonder if they got graded on results? Considering the functionality, they should have put all the credits and patting themselves on the backs at the close of the video.