World’s Smallest Nerf Gun Shoots an Ant

Creating the World’s smallest Nerf gun 5 times in a row. Reserve your CrunchLabs Build Box for the holidays here- https://crunchlabs.com

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Thanks to these folks for providing some of the music in the video:
A Shell in the Pit – https://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/
Ponder – @pondermusic
Laura Shigihara – @supershigi
Andrew Applepie – https://soundcloud.com/andrewapplepie
Blue Wednesday – https://soundcloud.com/bluewednesday

Special thanks to my friends at BYU – Larry Howell, Brian Jensen, Spencer Magleby, Terri Bateman, Felipe Rivera, Jacob Sheffield, Grant Ogilvie, Bridget Kember, Bethany Parkinson, Aliya Bascom, James Wade, Hunter Pruett, Jared Hunter, Luke Gardner, Ivyann Running, Michael Linder, Brooklyn Peters, Jared Erickson, Austin Martel, Kyle Dahl, Julie Walker, Adam Sanders, Matt Michell and Barret Schoenrock.

Download files for compliant mechanisms that you can 3D print (including a compliant mechanism blaster): https://compliantmechanisms.byu.edu/maker-resources

To learn more about the BYU Compliant Mechanisms Research Group (CMR), see https://compliantmechanisms.byu.edu/

Also, thanks to the very talented group of researchers from the Salk Institute, UC San Diego, and UC San Francisco: Lauren P. Takiguchi, Jocelyn G. Olvera, Amanda L. Wacker, Ryan J. Fantasia, Boyu Liu, and Pallav Kosuri, Wade Shipley of UC San Diego, and Konlin Shen, Roopal Rawani, Amy Cao, Mike Jeffs, and Victoria Johnson.

To read more about DNA Origami NanoNERF Blasters, please visit https://kosurilab.com/docs/Takiguchi-Rober-Kosuri-nanoNERF-manuscript

To learn more about Pallav Kosuri’s research and to support him in making DNA machines that improve human health, please visit https://www.salk.edu/kosuri. To support his work, click on the ‘give’ button and note ‘Kosuri Lab’ in the comments.

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