Man builds a belt-fed potato cannon, because he could

According to Boing Boing, an engineer has built a belt-fed potato cannon—a fully automated launcher that fires potatoes in rapid succession using compressed air. What makes the project remarkable isn't just the finished cannon, but the deep research and design work that went into creating it. It's the kind of gleefully overengineered maker project that reminds us why tinkerers exist: to answer the question 'can I?' without worrying too much about 'should I?'

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