Overview

The Portable Coilgun is a coilgun that launches projectiles made of ferromagnetic material. This project has military, civilian, and scientific applications and uses. These include defense, electromagnetic rail travel, and magnetic field generation. The project goals include portability, high velocity projectiles, and accuracy. These goals are achieved through the utilization of the concepts of magnetic fields, electronic circuitry, and microcontroller programming.

Coil guns have been an interest to our group due to the numerous potential advantages they hold, including that it is naturally a silent weapon and that it does not rely on gunpowder to fire. Our hand-held gun holds various compoentns including a boost converter, capacitor bank, custom firing circuit, a custom printed circuit board (PCB), velocity sensors, an LCD, and voltage sensors. This project provided design and implentation challenges for both Electrical and Computer engineers.

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Meet the Engineers

Daniel Bears is a senior graduating in May 2016 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. Daniel plans on moving out to Arizona to begin working for Raytheon Missile Systems as a systems engineer upon graduation

Ian Fuentes is a senior graduating in May 2016 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. Ian plans on taking the summer off and returning to UCF in the fall to pursue a master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Omeed Nogherahkar-Baboli is a senior graduating in May 2016 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. Omeed has been working as a firmware engineer at Unikey Technologies for the last year and plans on continuing to work in the field of firmware.

Daniel Josol is a Computer Engineer graduating in May 2016 from the University of Central Florida. Specializing in programming, he has a wide knowledge of different languages spanning from object-orietend programming languages such as C++ and database languages such as SQL.