Tinkering in Libya

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Matt Hardigree — You know the little Power Wheels-style ATV your kid uses to drive across the lawn? it turns out that it makes a great machine gun drone in the hands of Libyan rebel, and structural engineer, Mohammad Bin Saud.

Bin Saud is one of a growing legion of rebel Libyans turning anything and everything — including the aforementioned Power Wheels — into weapons.

As the war in Libya drags on, both the opposition forces and government loyalists have been using whatever tools and ammunition they can scrounge up to kill the other side. For the mostly unarmed Libyan rebels this means snagging guns from downed aircraft and attaching them to trucks.

It also means ingenious inventions like this little sentry robot outfitted with a small cannon and attached to controls via long wire. A solider can hide while he uses a small television and simple controls to move the vehicle and fire the gun. A similar system is also outfitted to a truck with a machine gun on top.

Qaddafi better watch out, even the pacifists are in on it.

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There is even a video.  That is where I would be if that was my country.  Making things discarded items and re-purposing stuff is one of my favorite things to do.  This is practical innovation at it's best

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Felt a bad for the engineering student, resigned to designing diy weapons only because it's what's important for him to do.

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Nobody finds it amusing they are scavenging toys and motorized wheelchair things to make weapons.  It's right out of a Mad Max movie 

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It might be more funny if it were just for shits and giggles.

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It's just odd.  I had thought all this would have been over by now wonder if it will start in Syria