No.20922
Anyone watch those shows about prison inventions? I wonder what the most sophisticated onss would be. My three biggest questions would be
1.) A gun
2.) A computer
3.) Bombs
4.) A canera
5.) A jet pack
P much all improvised stuff you see in prisons are all essentially the same thing: pointed weapons. If you went to prison and you were squaring up with some hardened convicts who are all armed with shanks, you'd need to upgrade in technology to fairly face them head-on since the no. #1 rule in a fight is there are no rules whatsoever. For a gun I was thinking of a Gauss rifle (similar to the Arc Flash GR-1 Anvil which has the same amount of muzzle velocity as a .22lr (note that most "Gauss guns" you see on YouTube are harmless toys). They shoot small magnetic projectiles and are quite bulky in size. I was thinking you could propbably make one (including the capacitors) out of car parts, among other things like wires and stuff. Because I know there are automobile jobs available in prisons in the US. These guns require no powder propellant.
Second one is computers. I heard one story of an inmate in ohio that made computers and connected them through the ceiling straight into the WiFi network out of pre-made computer parts. Obviously not everybody has access to salvaged and repurposed computer (esp not ones that can easily be smuggled) so my idea would be to make a PDA out of the Electronic Control Units to a car (which connects to the Controller Area Network). But then again I'm no expert in engineering, but I do know that a lot of people in prison do, since all they have is time on their hands whereas most people are preoccupied.
As for bombs, I would think that whoever is in the woodshop could make a Roman-style Ballista + tin cans + airbag inflators from cars, again, from a prison job, since the older ones come in capsules that have sodium azide in them - which is a shock sensitive primary explosive (sometimes mixed with potassium nitrate and silicon dioxide to reduce harmful byproducts), whereas the newer ones rely on a mixture between Guanidine Nitrate w/ Copper Nitrate as the oxidizer. There was one Japanese company that sold ammonipum nitrate airbag inflators that ceased production due to lawsuits anx recalls that still might be on the streets even now. And aside from that, some newer cars use gases as some experimental thing (I think helium or argon-helium mix). But azide and ammonium nitrate-based explosives tend to be super corrosive so you would have to absolutely know what you're doing, otherwise you'll be the one who winds up dead. Then just stick the inflators inside a tin can with the lid jb welded shut, place it in your medieval siege weapon (that basicalky just looks like an oversized crossbow) and assuming you have some from older cars, can use that for a shock detonation. And that's how you'd make an arty piece improvised aside from having to get a little bit too crude with it and make bottle bombs (God forbid).
Or you can make a camera since prisons don't like them out of a rearview camera from a car because why tf not?
Has anyone already built any of these in particular? Btlw don't know where to putl this.