DIY: Become a winter warrior by building your own snowball machine gun
Are you tired of being on the losing end of snowball fights? Are neighborhood kids always pelting you with snowballs whenever you leave your house? Then put your DIY skills to work and make your own snowball machine gun. Complete with additional clips that can hold up to 15 snowballs, a trigger that can control airflow, and a plunger to control rate of fire, this wintertime project is sure to make you the ultimate snow warrior.
According to Eric Limer for Popular Mechanics: "Developed by former NASA engineer and designer of the animated ugly Christmas sweater Mark Rober, this snowball machine gun flings snow-spheres at rates of up to ~25 per second. But that's not all! It also supports a clip system that makes it easy to make and load dozens or hundreds of snowballs ahead of time, and fire them off with just a three or four second break between barrages. All you need is some PVC and a leaf-blower to build your own version of this overkill device."
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Alexis Gajewski is a manufacturing writer and editor with nearly 20 years of experience covering the people, practices, and technologies that keep industrial facilities running. For more than a decade, she served as Senior Content Strategist for Plant Services, creating content for plant managers, engineers, and maintenance professionals on a variety of industrial topics.
During her tenure, Alexis worked to develop the brand’s digital strategy and helped launch and produce Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast. She also created The Lighter Side of Manufacturing, a weekly blog that explored the inventive and sometimes humorous side of the industry.
Alexis co-founded Influential Women in Manufacturing, a recognition program that honored 49 women in its first two years, earned an industry award for Best Product Launch, and received a proclamation from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and a commendation from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth.
She also led newsroom operations and development at a large media company where she set editorial standards, developed training curriculum, and helped support AI adoption for more than 150 editors across 80+ brands spanning manufacturing, industrial processing, automation, and more.
Additionally, Alexis works as a freelance writer and editor, and her areas of interest include continuous improvement, the skilled workforce, and the role of emerging technology on the plant floor.
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