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YouTube – High Voltage Nerf Vulcan

YouTube – High Voltage Nerf Vulcan.

I hooked up three 9.6V batteries to my nerf vulcan.  Now I need to mod the battery compartment to hold them and build some longer chains.  It goes through 25 rounds in about 3 seconds.

This was inspired by ManaPotion’s 500 RPM Vulcan mod.  I’ve reached their fire rate, but hope to push it a little farther with some heat sinks and better motor cooling.  One more 9.6V battery should push it to 666 rounds per minute.

YouTube – 500 Round Per Minute Dart Chaingun Hack

YouTube – 500 Round Per Minute Dart Chaingun Hack.

I’m thinking I need to do this mod with my gun, but I’ll add some heat sink to the motor if I can find or make one that fits.

YouTube – NERF Lawbringer

YouTube – NERF Lawbringer.

Even an innocent nerf gun can be modded into a lethal weapon.

My New Desk

My new desk is starting to take shape. I’m hoping to get this part finished by Sunday. Then I get to figure out how to mount the LCDs.

Desk, Second Draft

Desk

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My second draft for the new desk. I haven’t decided on the wood yet, but probably Birch plywood for the surfaces and Birch or Oak 1×4s for the trestles. It will be finished with a dark near black stain.

New Year Nerf Mod

I’m kicking off the new year with this quick little Nerf Mod, or how to add a little too much power to a standard cheap NERF N-Strike Nite Finder. I purchased the gun at Target, but they can be found most anywhere toys are sold in a variety of colors. Amazon has a couple listed for 3rd party sale here and here at outragous prices. Look around, you can probably find them for under $10.

I picked up the spring at Home Depot, but I think this one on Amazon is the same:
Century Spring #C-836 7/8″ by 4″

If you try other spring sizes please let me know. I actually think this would be better with a slightly weaker spring. More on that later.
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Starting on a DIY Laser Etching Machine

I picked up this old XY plotter off eBay with hopes of making it work as a Laser Etcher.

So far I’ve got it working, it passes the self test and I managed to hack up a serial cable to send it an hpgl file. The next step is finding decent hpgl tools for Linux and see if I can get accurate results.