The Large PiñA Collider:

This is a Joke project I made, which got funded by the Deflorez Fund for Humor.

The joke is that this machine operates like the Large Hadron Collider, except instead of smashing subatomic particles together, it smashes Pineapples and Coconuts in the hope of generating a Piña Colada.

It works by having two compressed air cannons loaded with frozen pellets of coconut and pineapple. They are fired at each other within a reaction chamber with a cup at the bottom.

This is a video we made about it:

Concept Art I made in Photoshop

CAD MODEL:

BUILD GALLERY: (Click any image to enlarge)