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Belt Fed Potato Cannon Spits Spuds

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According to Hackaday, a maker has built a belt-fed potato cannon — a rapid-fire launcher mounted on a bipod that transforms humble spuds into high-velocity projectiles. It's the kind of engineering project that perfectly captures the maker community's philosophy: if it's worth doing, it's worth over-engineering.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2026/07/06/belt-fed-potato-cannon-sp...

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