I built a unit that would be about the size of what krazykemist has there. It was made out of ABS plastic. It had a 1" U-shaped sprinkler valve and two 9V batteries.
I could pump it up to about 100psi and put a tennis ball out of sight. We had it hooked up to a standard air compressor, so we were 'teathered.'
All in all, it worked well, sounded very cool, and took about 20 minutes to build (not including glue dry time).
-BD
BTW, did anyone catch the last episode of Monster Nation? A few people built a rather large air cannon. It launched a gallon container of mustard 800 yards!
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