A Serious Potato Gun

When Richard was at Total Training as Chief Science Officer, solving tech problems and writing theme music for Adobe training Modules were just part of the job.

The rest was pure enjoyment in a great working atmosphere with amazing, creative folks.

Ranking high on the high jinks list was demolishing old monitors (and ripe watermellons) that were taking up space in the Total Training office, uh, playgound.

Enter the Serious Potato Gun made out of PVC Pipe, connected to a compressor, and mounted on top of an 1960s television pedestal from the CBS Broadcast Center (acquired from an auction).

In this excerpt from Richard Lainhart, according to Brian Maffit, Richard demonstrates the accuracy, power and downright satisfaction of shooting out video monitors with a potato gun.

Yes, those were real potatoes.