Lego hack: Functional sniper rifle (video)

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14 pointsphiljackson4 comments

It's sure cool, but I wouldn't call it a hack... after all, he built something out of parts that were _designed_ to be built into something. Maybe not a functional sniper rifle, specifically, but _something_. To me the word hack implies that, apart from making that Something work, you do it using unconventional or surprising tools or techniques.

Are you suggesting that using a programming language to write a program is surprising? I feel like they may have been designed to do that...

I was going to write an indignant reply about how this is surely the coolest thing I have ever seen built with legos. I was also going to mention that I've never seen anything like it built with legos. It occurred to me, however, that this might be my fault. A cursory search on YouTube validated my suspicion - it is my fault; several other people have built "working" firearm replicas, including longarms.

Indeed, perhaps this is too commonplace to considered a hack... but, after ten minutes of browsing around YouTube, it IS the best implementation I've seen; kudos to the builder for that. (That wicked crossbow is a close runner up though.)

No, I take it back. Legos were surely never intended for this use case.

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