This is a nice one: You will need to be careful and have enough safety precautions, as well as some understanding of electrics.
A coil gun, which consists of a barrel, a coil wrapped around it, and some capacitors. The capacitors get charged, you put a ferro-magnetic object in the barrel, flick the switch and by Lorentz-force the projectile propels out of the barrel :).
Movie if you do it the pro way:
Be sure to have someone with knowledge of electronics around, if you get jolted from a 400V 400uF cap you can die.