Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 29

BETTER NERF GUN

Build a metal foam-dart gun that blows away store-bought plastic models.

By Simon Jansen

Like most geek-filled offices, at my workplace we have several Nerf guns and similar toy weapons floating about. Not impressed with the performance of my colleague Lester’s Nerf Maverick, a mainstay of Nerf’s suction-cup-dart-firing “N-Strike” series, I decided to build a better Nerf gun myself.

Here’s the result: a simple weapon, single shot only, but with much greater range and accuracy than the standard toys. Let your indoor combat foes tremble; with a little practice, one shot is all you need.

I made the pistol from PVC pipe, aluminum extrusion, ...