Cited as a reference
Just Try and Make Your Own Coil-Gun (Accelerator)
Why people recommend it
Mehdi Sadaghdar builds a coilgun with his usual deliberate mishaps; cited on electromagnet design, with a warning that the circuit is not one to copy.
Watch for: deliberate bad practice
In their words
In videos like this one by electroboom, people make electromagnets with itty bitty wires.
Joseph Summerhays on electronics.stackexchange.com, Mar 2024. CC BY-SA.
You might look at Electroboom's video on coilguns to see what can happen to electromagnets...
Crash Gordon on electronics.stackexchange.com, Mar 2022. CC BY-SA.
FWIW, the guy who came up with this circuit is an 'engineering comedian', i.e. he does bad stuff on purpose.
Adam Lawrence on electronics.stackexchange.com, Jan 2013. CC BY-SA.
