Actually there's alot of criteria, e.g. originality etc. Also, this project is just one of the many key indicators the admission team look at. Besides, this guy doesn't need MIT, he'll excel anywhere with such talent
it problaby was rejected because it was a gun, and it did not work as intended, i mean, if you make a gun you better make it impressive or focus on the technical aspects, just making a gun for making it does not give a good look
its a pee shooter, if you brought them something seriously powerful then you're in. this has been done badly countless of times, plenty of what not to do's and basically you are going to end up with a shit pee shooter
@@theDgrader he’s just 1 guy, you think he has enough funds to build a seriously powerful coil gun? If your answer is yes then you’re stupid if your answer is no then delete your brain dead comment
There is a reason we use rail guns rather than coil guns, and why we research those instead. Railguns are simpler to build, easier to maintain, more accurate due to just the projectile being on rails rather than floating and running through coils, and rail guns are more powerful by concept. The only difference is it's easier to make small scale coil guns over small scale rail guns, not to mention small scale versions of these guns just simply aren't worth building as realistically, it'll just be a pea shooter, a nerfgun essentially. You can only get so much power out of a hand held coil gun, a rail gun might be strong enough to kill a man, but you are likely carrying around a 60+ lbs gun, something heavier and bulkier than an RPG, just so you can fire a single bullet and destroy your own gun. It's just cheaper and better to just pull out a hand gun and go "bang bang bang!" Lastly, this "experiment" has been doing many, many times. If anything, at this point it's more of a very advanced and complicated lab exercise, where the concept isn't complicated, but merely the regulation and timing of the electricity between each coil. The video he showed of a gun trying to make a peashooter coil gun himself, is a very amazing Electrical Engineer on RUclips who does these sorts of things for fun. So, unfortunately, there is no need for this experiment to be done or needed. There are Universities who do take on many gun-related project. I believe about 1-2 years ago, A&M had a group who did a research project on accelerating the speed of a projectile (bullet launched from gun) and they were successfully able to break the recordm. If the group/University is able to successfully patent their success, and then offer it to gun manufacturers at a royalty of $0.01 per bullet sold made with this technique, they would likely already all be millionaires. Fast bullets are immensely important for many reasons: aircraft taking on other aircraft, snipers having an easier time picking off ranged targets, anti-air craft/missile turrets based on land, etc. Running an exercise with the fully automates turrets meant to shoot down incoming missile, probably burn around 500-5,000 rounds in 6 seconds bursting down incoming projectiles. Those turrets themselves would likely go through around 50,000 rounds a year, each, and there are quite a few of them in existence (on boats, on bases, in deployment areas, etc). Not to mention that group probably has a guaranteed job at places like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
Thanks! Your portfolio work is also really interesting, I remember doing a little bit of VEX robotics in middle school and wish I could have done it in high school. Good luck!
Some ideas I thought of when I worked on my theoretic design: - using sensing coils that would be wrapped around the middle of the acceleration coils that can track when the bullet passes the middle of each coil (rather than using less efficient infrared light barrier solutions) - using an H bridge to control each coil, once the bullet passed the middle of the coil a reverse current can be applied to further accelerate the bullet
I did go through similar issues with transformers not being able to handle all the current, but it was mostly due to core saturation, the inductance gets so low the tranaformer essentially acts as a short circuit, you're gonna need to either increase the frequency of your input or increase the core size
You don't have to have succeeded to succeed. Start now, and you will only progress, learn, and move forward. There are no prerequisites, and there's no opportunity to regress should you begin.
Don’t worry you dodged a bullet. I once built a custom tool for MIT and honestly I don’t think I’ve worked with anyone more technically inept than them.
Thats what most of the private sector thinks nowadays apparently. Theres this stereotype of your average ivy league kid, being insanely inept and borderline incompetent at what they do. Iv seen this dude with insane grades, who made his own transformer based neurel nets wayyyy back in 2019, get straight up rejected. Meanwhile you got some retarded NPC of a motherfucker, with the most mid grades conceivable, only getting A's in humanities, volunteer at a RABBIT SANCTUARY, and get in lmfao. Its almost as if they want the most stupid and compliant people in their Uni lmfao.
I was waiting for the end of my exams to do the project, and by chance I found someone who had already implemented it on RUclips. I don't know if I was late or you were the former, and it was fun to see people think creativel
Was that all from that button cell battery? 😮Most people won't realize how much work really went into this project. Congrats on following through to the "completion", that is the hardest part for me. I think your design is awesome. Belongs in the Fallout Universe.
This is super cool! I wanted to make the same thing when I was in high school, but I could only dream about driving circuits at such high voltage. My maker portfolio ended up filled with mostly software projects (the easier discipline in the EECS spectrum). No matter where you go to college, just keep working hard, making cool stuff, and having fun! Try to go to a school with an FSAE or Indy Autonomous Challenge team - I highly recommend that you try out these competitions!
They'll rue the day they rejected you, this is your origins for becoming an evil scientist. You'll be making death rays in no time! Seriously though great video super well done!
Your circuit board may be a weak link that can be replaced entirely. Solder components between wires directly and wrap them in an insulator, then fix them to parts of a container far enough apart to prevent arcing. A future design could involve high power boards for reliability and form, but prototyping for function first can help reach the goal fast
Very impressive and I am by no means calling into question your obvious future in engineering... but did you really never, not even once, consider that flexing that you can build a gun is the worst possible move you could make when applying to an American college? 💀💀💀
@@aerojetrocketdyners-2538 The idea is wildly derivative, ultimately unsuccessful and the solutions to the problem boil down to "pray harder so the genie stays in" or a non-descript "custom solution". Victim mentality doesn't help anyone, regardless of whether it's employed by disenfranchised youth from the hood or disenfranchised youth from the not hood.
@@ww-pw6di so you expect the kid to be able to determine the exact path he has to follow to successfully create this device without having graduate level knowledge or the budget to support him? So, you want this kind to hold graduate level knowledge, industry expert skills and experience, and full blown multi million company budget. Cool.
@@AlFredo-sx2yy Buddy. I responded to the premise that he was rejected due to institutionalized racism and sexism, which is ridiculous and unproductive (specifically in this case). The problems started at the "wildly derivative" with a chance of redemption at the end, not at the end where he would've needed "industry knowledge" where he could have demonstrated exceptional insight or knowledge. Besides, he got into a great university in the end and although idk him, I think it will be a better fit.
the way he is speaking and the way he is breathing this is what adder all will do to you engineer cool shittt that no one really needs but it is cool Matthew
keep up the good work; keep in mind the politics involved culturally right now; and never let your ideas feel less than good. Best of luck to you friend.
while it is cool, and a great project. i can see why MIT doesnt find it that special, these have been around for a long time and there has not been any major break throughs in the design features. should he been able to develop a means to vastly enhance the performance of the coils and generate supersonic speeds in a smaller package they would have accepted it for sure… a coil gun strong enough to break 1100fps is the size of a pick up truck, thus it doesnt have much practicality. there is developments of rail guns but those schematics are highly classified im sure.
What if I told you they already had this technology in the early 1900's.. and for exactly that purpose, a high-speed rail system. This guy is nearly 100 years late and you're all acting like he "discovered" something. Unbelievable world we're living in. Twilight zone, 2023, fits with "woke" insanity.
@@Baneslayer I wasn’t implying he had created something new but rather than the veneer of the term “high speed rail” is glossier than the whole rail gun thing. Agree with you 100%
Ironically most of college graduates are going to work to make missiles or guidance systems to missiles, weapons of war, or at least enabling weapons of war, etc.
it stopped charging because boost converters aren't meant to charge large caps from zero. Really anything under the battery voltage results in uncontrollable current.
Sorry. I have a dumb question. - what does rejected 2026 means? Should we submit applications 3 years in advance ? I thought MIT applications are yearly, so you need to apply the preceding year to get into autumn next year. Please correct me. What years you need to get these maker portfolio ready for admission ?
You're right, the maker portfolio is submitted around the same time as the regular-action application, for admission for the proceeding fall semester. By 2026, I meant that I was applying for the *class* of 2026; that is, had I been admitted, I would have graduated in 2026. Sorry for the confusion!
Wouldnt it be helpful to say, use a pre accelerator like an airsoft rifle and ferrous balls(6mm bearings) ? Or spin launcher. Then the Mag accelerator as the high energy booster? Ps its not a firearm if its a hole punching device, or object accelerator, or small scale transport prototype. Think out of the box to get funding. Dual use. A hammer can drive nails or smash folks. Its a bit harder to get funding for a finger smasher then it is for a kinetic impact derived, fastener driving device. AKA 2023>>> Ergonomic Titanium framing hammer.
Fuck what MIT says, Raytheon will buy and hire you onboard, make more money too! I always wanted an Draco Rail-Gun that can shoot fully-auto while sliding on Cyber-opps in my hover Hellcat.
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Is it just me, or are the rejected videos way more impressive than the accepted ones? 😅
Actually there's alot of criteria, e.g. originality etc. Also, this project is just one of the many key indicators the admission team look at. Besides, this guy doesn't need MIT, he'll excel anywhere with such talent
For instance, if there are many coilgun projects on RUclips, then it'll affect how they grade your project.
I would understand why this was rejected. Dude should have used another word other than 'gun' to describe this. It actually looks disturbing.
it problaby was rejected because it was a gun, and it did not work as intended, i mean, if you make a gun you better make it impressive or focus on the technical aspects, just making a gun for making it does not give a good look
@@tiagomiranda316 It's an unfortunate bias against him. Just because he's making a gun, doesn't mean he would go on a shooting spree.
interesting work. I am not sure if MIT would accept any submissions involving guns not matter how good.
Yet they'll send all their students off to work for the government on better ways to kill brown people in far off lands.
It's also something that has so many papers and research grants at this points it's beating a dead horse
Why hasnt this been this kid getting swaated yet For his Google search
@@darwinawardrecipient955 you mean like all the other ones?
Yes, because as we all know, the USA is famously averse to guns.
Rejected projects usually accumulate a huge private source fund anonymously. Good work.
its a pee shooter, if you brought them something seriously powerful then you're in. this has been done badly countless of times, plenty of what not to do's and basically you are going to end up with a shit pee shooter
@@theDgrader he’s just 1 guy, you think he has enough funds to build a seriously powerful coil gun? If your answer is yes then you’re stupid if your answer is no then delete your brain dead comment
There is a reason we use rail guns rather than coil guns, and why we research those instead.
Railguns are simpler to build, easier to maintain, more accurate due to just the projectile being on rails rather than floating and running through coils, and rail guns are more powerful by concept.
The only difference is it's easier to make small scale coil guns over small scale rail guns, not to mention small scale versions of these guns just simply aren't worth building as realistically, it'll just be a pea shooter, a nerfgun essentially. You can only get so much power out of a hand held coil gun, a rail gun might be strong enough to kill a man, but you are likely carrying around a 60+ lbs gun, something heavier and bulkier than an RPG, just so you can fire a single bullet and destroy your own gun.
It's just cheaper and better to just pull out a hand gun and go "bang bang bang!"
Lastly, this "experiment" has been doing many, many times. If anything, at this point it's more of a very advanced and complicated lab exercise, where the concept isn't complicated, but merely the regulation and timing of the electricity between each coil.
The video he showed of a gun trying to make a peashooter coil gun himself, is a very amazing Electrical Engineer on RUclips who does these sorts of things for fun.
So, unfortunately, there is no need for this experiment to be done or needed. There are Universities who do take on many gun-related project. I believe about 1-2 years ago, A&M had a group who did a research project on accelerating the speed of a projectile (bullet launched from gun) and they were successfully able to break the recordm. If the group/University is able to successfully patent their success, and then offer it to gun manufacturers at a royalty of $0.01 per bullet sold made with this technique, they would likely already all be millionaires.
Fast bullets are immensely important for many reasons: aircraft taking on other aircraft, snipers having an easier time picking off ranged targets, anti-air craft/missile turrets based on land, etc.
Running an exercise with the fully automates turrets meant to shoot down incoming missile, probably burn around 500-5,000 rounds in 6 seconds bursting down incoming projectiles.
Those turrets themselves would likely go through around 50,000 rounds a year, each, and there are quite a few of them in existence (on boats, on bases, in deployment areas, etc).
Not to mention that group probably has a guaranteed job at places like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
Rejected by MIT, scooped up by Raytheon 😂
I wouldnt be surprised if in 20 years, we got the next albert einstein working in defence over MIT
The only problem is this technology is nearly 100 years old. Are you all this stupid?
Love your portfolio! I applied too with a maker portfolio, I really like yours and I hope we both get in!
Thanks! Your portfolio work is also really interesting, I remember doing a little bit of VEX robotics in middle school and wish I could have done it in high school. Good luck!
Keep up the work! Love seeing other people do their own projects too!
You did really good 💯 Keep working hard and you'll contribute to society in greater ways
good luck friend! I'm in my freshman year rn and its been my dream to go to MIT!
This is amazing dude! Incredible work, you're a very gifted person!
Great video and breakdown! I'm subbed and looking forward to your progress and success.
Great work! All the best! :D
Some ideas I thought of when I worked on my theoretic design:
- using sensing coils that would be wrapped around the middle of the acceleration coils that can track when the bullet passes the middle of each coil (rather than using less efficient infrared light barrier solutions)
- using an H bridge to control each coil, once the bullet passed the middle of the coil a reverse current can be applied to further accelerate the bullet
H bridge wouldnt help. He is shooting non magnetic projectile, meaning it would be attracted to the middle of the coil, regardless of direction.
also it would take time to collapse the magnetic field. you cant do it in an instance.
I did go through similar issues with transformers not being able to handle all the current, but it was mostly due to core saturation, the inductance gets so low the tranaformer essentially acts as a short circuit, you're gonna need to either increase the frequency of your input or increase the core size
Very interesting. I hope your projects succeed in the future
I never made it past 4th grade, but I still envy you guys who did stuff. Never give up.
You don't have to have succeeded to succeed.
Start now, and you will only progress, learn, and move forward. There are no prerequisites, and there's no opportunity to regress should you begin.
not too late.
@@dompdompdomp no, never too late
Good Luck Buddy! You're awesome! Greetings from Brasil!
Such an elegant design.
Man, even if MIT had rejected your project, your work is quite inspirational. Keep punching! Hope you get there!
Don’t worry you dodged a bullet. I once built a custom tool for MIT and honestly I don’t think I’ve worked with anyone more technically inept than them.
Thats what most of the private sector thinks nowadays apparently.
Theres this stereotype of your average ivy league kid, being insanely inept and borderline incompetent at what they do.
Iv seen this dude with insane grades, who made his own transformer based neurel nets wayyyy back in 2019, get straight up rejected.
Meanwhile you got some retarded NPC of a motherfucker, with the most mid grades conceivable, only getting A's in humanities, volunteer at a RABBIT SANCTUARY, and get in lmfao.
Its almost as if they want the most stupid and compliant people in their Uni lmfao.
I was waiting for the end of my exams to do the project, and by chance I found someone who had already implemented it on RUclips. I don't know if I was late or you were the former, and it was fun to see people think creativel
Would really love to see how it performs
Its funny you get the complicated things right while learning some more basic stuff, pretty cool project.
Impressive gun. Too bad I didn't see it in action.
Was that all from that button cell battery? 😮Most people won't realize how much work really went into this project. Congrats on following through to the "completion", that is the hardest part for me. I think your design is awesome. Belongs in the Fallout Universe.
I love your music bro. I was looking for an update on this project but I discovered you also make music.
This is super cool! I wanted to make the same thing when I was in high school, but I could only dream about driving circuits at such high voltage. My maker portfolio ended up filled with mostly software projects (the easier discipline in the EECS spectrum). No matter where you go to college, just keep working hard, making cool stuff, and having fun! Try to go to a school with an FSAE or Indy Autonomous Challenge team - I highly recommend that you try out these competitions!
That looks brilliant
Tube amplifiers might be the inspiration you need. They all are running at the voltage you desire. At least, before it’s controlled.
good luck brother
Amazing bro 🙏
The music and soulless VO just makes this creepier than it needs to be.
They'll rue the day they rejected you, this is your origins for becoming an evil scientist. You'll be making death rays in no time! Seriously though great video super well done!
Your circuit board may be a weak link that can be replaced entirely. Solder components between wires directly and wrap them in an insulator, then fix them to parts of a container far enough apart to prevent arcing. A future design could involve high power boards for reliability and form, but prototyping for function first can help reach the goal fast
Mclovin really grew out of himself
Chicka chicka yeah 😄
Stay resolute and press on!
Dope project!
Fucked if i know why I got this recommended to me, but you seem like an intelligent person who's certainly going to go far. Good onya, mate :D
Very impressive and I am by no means calling into question your obvious future in engineering... but did you really never, not even once, consider that flexing that you can build a gun is the worst possible move you could make when applying to an American college? 💀💀💀
In America? We love guns. If anything your statement mostly applies to pretty much every country except for the United States
@@spenceryoung1427 yeah but no COLLEGE is gonna think like that, especially an the top schools or ivies
@@emilliofayad3088 plenty of other corporations and entities would be interested though.
Especially when it never operates properly and is based on technology nearly 100 years old?
i cant wait for u to become a supervillain ngl
i say this with upmost respect for u
Hope that you will get in!
That’s Nutts bud!
Way better then most of the accepted ive seen
That first iteration picture looks like something that’ll be on fbi files one day
Three days left for pi day! Best of luck!
This is Nutt!
i would reject you too, but on the other side; keep going and do not stop, eventually you will get there and tell us i told you so!
Well let's fire it !
Let your ambition carry you
Sounds very cool. Maybe they have a failior criteria that's if it dosn't work we don't accept it?
Yes of course. It's mega cool! Look here:
! New: Apocalypse Coilgun, Fallout Coilgun
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See also: Portable Super Coilgun:
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ruclips.net/video/YLOYxsqvjw0/видео.html
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Guns, white male, rejected
@@aerojetrocketdyners-2538 The idea is wildly derivative, ultimately unsuccessful and the solutions to the problem boil down to "pray harder so the genie stays in" or a non-descript "custom solution".
Victim mentality doesn't help anyone, regardless of whether it's employed by disenfranchised youth from the hood or disenfranchised youth from the not hood.
@@ww-pw6di so you expect the kid to be able to determine the exact path he has to follow to successfully create this device without having graduate level knowledge or the budget to support him? So, you want this kind to hold graduate level knowledge, industry expert skills and experience, and full blown multi million company budget. Cool.
@@AlFredo-sx2yy Buddy. I responded to the premise that he was rejected due to institutionalized racism and sexism, which is ridiculous and unproductive (specifically in this case).
The problems started at the "wildly derivative" with a chance of redemption at the end, not at the end where he would've needed "industry knowledge" where he could have demonstrated exceptional insight or knowledge.
Besides, he got into a great university in the end and although idk him, I think it will be a better fit.
The thumbnail made me think that he built the makeup gun from The Simpsons.
MIT rejected you because you're too good. Keep it going
the way he is speaking and the way he is breathing this is what adder all will do to you engineer cool shittt that no one really needs but it is cool Matthew
*Anyways, you did great job. So, where are you going this fall?*
Rice University, they have a great engineering program and it's really close to my extended family.
@@matthewnutt3280 All the best, Electrical engineering is very hard!!
@@matthewnutt3280 keep making monstrosities and never forget to share my dude
@@matthewnutt3280 and if you ever have to set foot on the MIT for whatever reason, tell them i said "fuck you".
MIT rejected a man with a high power could gun. Smh this is how you create super villians
I honestly thought this was a young Matei Zaharia from the thumbnail.
Use larger capacitors for discharge
Imperial guardsman’s application to be a licensed tech priest
keep up the good work; keep in mind the politics involved culturally right now; and never let your ideas feel less than good. Best of luck to you friend.
It almost feels like everyone is using similar components for a 400V coilgun
My school didn’t even have a shop class
I don’t understand a bit, but seems interesting. Good luck man
while it is cool, and a great project. i can see why MIT doesnt find it that special, these have been around for a long time and there has not been any major break throughs in the design features. should he been able to develop a means to vastly enhance the performance of the coils and generate supersonic speeds in a smaller package they would have accepted it for sure… a coil gun strong enough to break 1100fps is the size of a pick up truck, thus it doesnt have much practicality. there is developments of rail guns but those schematics are highly classified im sure.
Measure twice, cut once.
That means do the math first, build second.
You can't give them good advice, they don't even know this technology is 100 years old.
Very cool!
I think it's fun project
very important life lesson my young friend, it is not what you know it is who you know in life, but don't give up, just keep it in mind
He should have sold this as inspiration for some sort of high-speed rail system. Instant acceptance letter
What if I told you they already had this technology in the early 1900's.. and for exactly that purpose, a high-speed rail system. This guy is nearly 100 years late and you're all acting like he "discovered" something. Unbelievable world we're living in. Twilight zone, 2023, fits with "woke" insanity.
@@Baneslayer I wasn’t implying he had created something new but rather than the veneer of the term “high speed rail” is glossier than the whole rail gun thing. Agree with you 100%
DOOM 1993 Plasma Gun vibes 😮
Very badass
Let's be real for a second, Howard Wolowitz finished MIT, how valuable education can be there?
Tag this one for later retrieval. We may have need of him to control the other humans. 👽
My cover is blown, but it was worth it. 😂
Great to see Electroboom haha
future gun
Like the gun in the movie Eraser.
This is the gun they used to kill shinzo abe
cant wait to see this guy in one of those disaster netflix documentaries
i am thinking if it had circular coils you might achieve faster speeds with same size
matthew nutt is a crazy name
Ironically most of college graduates are going to work to make missiles or guidance systems to missiles, weapons of war, or at least enabling weapons of war, etc.
it stopped charging because boost converters aren't meant to charge large caps from zero. Really anything under the battery voltage results in uncontrollable current.
Make the traces on the circuit board even bigger, these looked like 4-6mm traces. You can go up to 1mm
Please dont become a villain Please dont become a villain Please dont become a villain Please dont become a villain...
can i... use this for a project? as a reference perhaps?
Bro is gonna get tracked by the CIA
With a last name like that, you should have gotten accepted!
Nah gun is crazy 😭😭
Badass
Yo no way I included my coilgun project in my portfolio too! Didn't get in tho :(
Sorry. I have a dumb question. - what does rejected 2026 means? Should we submit applications 3 years in advance ? I thought MIT applications are yearly, so you need to apply the preceding year to get into autumn next year. Please correct me. What years you need to get these maker portfolio ready for admission ?
You're right, the maker portfolio is submitted around the same time as the regular-action application, for admission for the proceeding fall semester. By 2026, I meant that I was applying for the *class* of 2026; that is, had I been admitted, I would have graduated in 2026. Sorry for the confusion!
Do you know if that can help me with my ghosts problems?
Make EMP bro.
When the treat of Robot soldier we need strong EMP who can shut them down for more than one minute
We need an update
How are you getting a 400 volt source?
Wouldnt it be helpful to say, use a pre accelerator like an airsoft rifle and ferrous balls(6mm bearings) ? Or spin launcher.
Then the Mag accelerator as the high energy booster? Ps its not a firearm if its a hole punching device, or object accelerator, or small scale transport prototype.
Think out of the box to get funding. Dual use. A hammer can drive nails or smash folks. Its a bit harder to get funding for a finger smasher then it is for a kinetic impact derived, fastener driving device. AKA 2023>>> Ergonomic Titanium framing hammer.
Its great .Where are you now . ?? If not MIT then ....
Rice University!
Is it scalable, to launch delivery drones?
theeeeezeee Nutts ////
Arguably this project could be repurposed into ground-to-air propulsion methods, Ie space flight and satellite launch
Nut
Fuck what MIT says, Raytheon will buy and hire you onboard, make more money too!
I always wanted an Draco Rail-Gun that can shoot fully-auto while sliding on Cyber-opps in my hover Hellcat.
You don't need MIT to be successful