I am Out of Darts. Today, I've got my first ever guest appearance. this is Eli. Eli is
an engineering student at Stanford University, actually. and he's yeah not not too far from
us he comes to a lot of our games and he also recently did a brushless blaster for drak now
he's been showing me designs over the past maybe six six months or so five months that have just
been driving me crazy because he's got a few skills that I lack in a big way he's also a
considerably better at 3d modeling so I thought I'd invite him on to show off this cool blaster
and I'll let you take it away so this is hex this is a three stage brushless raven with a
auto pusher at the back from a rapid strike it's powered by a 4400 milliamp hour life 3s lipo in
the back here in this custom 3d printed stock it's how it uses an XP 180 pusher on 3s which
gives around 14 darts per second the first two stages are actually brushless outrunner 's and
the last stage is brushless in runner with a worker flywheel attachment on it this system
gives around 180 FPS on full vinyl jackets which is hard tip Nerf darts so if that wasn't totally
clear that's three three flywheel sets in here so there's six black wheels three sets and this thing
shoots faster and revs up faster than any blaster I've ever seen yep so if you can actually hear it
revving right now like that's pretty fast and pretty scary to listen to not only does it have
all that it also is controlled completely by 18c in the back here TT for those that don't know is
another microprocessor like an Arduino it's all housed in the stock battery tray which if I can
ever get this out that all houses all the logic to control the three round bursts that the blaster
has the full full auto as well as single shot it also controls interestingly a screen that's on
this side of the blaster this shows you all the information about the blaster including how many
shots you've fired out of it the firing mode as well as whether you have a mag in the blaster or
not it also not only does it have all that it has a custom muzzle brakes for example this is just
a standard like cool looking sci-fi muzzle brake and change it out for a shot gun that fires three
rival rounds as fast as possible this just goes on like normal like that and look about another
side right here now this in itself is like it's something I sort of he and I worked on in the
beginning together but he totally took it way further it's a single shot single button that
both revs and fires so he's got a lightweight switch with a heavy spring for the mechanical
trigger which is really rad as far as a real fast one-off talked about the the firing modes - I
know this was in Drax had a similar yeah so it's a similar system it's still using like
microcontroller tracks was a Arduino Pro micro this one is actually a teensy the concept is still
the same basically when you set the single mode up here it fires only one shot per trigger pull so
you can hold the trigger as long as possible you go to stores you're still gonna fire one single
shot which is great for controllability and for sniping so to speak and you've got three round
bursts where you fire three rounds per trigger pull you can pull as long as you want and you
only fire three rounds this is really good also for trigger control but it's sort of an in-between
between single shot and full auto where you kind of want to suppress a little bit but you also want
to make sure that you hit the people that you're trying to suppress as well and last of course is
full auto which is just the most fun that's all the fun of a rapid strike in a raven with three
brushless systems shooting at 180 feet per second and and this thing is just absolutely insane when
I'm playing with it I have I'm running around with my hurricane and I've got 90 rounds in there and
I'm I'm dumping lobbing them and I'm not getting even 3040 feet from him and he's hit me hit me
with streams of three flying in the range on this blaster I've never felt so outclassed when
when playing against a blaster or another another player because it's a little insane and that's fvj
speed by the way we I don't think we mentioned that fvj speed so elites are actually lighter
which means that they fire through this faster even faster it's about 200 feet per second so
there is one drawback of using brushes a brushless system which is the fact that it does heat up a
bit but to solve that this blaster has another trick up its sleeve cooling fans I don't know
if you can hear that maybe but it has a cooling fans in order to actually cool down the first
two brushless stages and the last one actually has a cover that's vented to the atmosphere so
active cooling very cool and of course it has its little flashlight mount for night hvz games and
uh yeah we'll do some chronograph test some downrange firing tests and move it to low
single shot three-round burst bottom
we moved for a car that's cool this is easily the coolest thing that I've ever seen a nerve
there are very few blasters that I see that I'm like I want that or I need to have that
and this is among them I keep looking for Ravens now to turn into this which I think
of all the Raven mods I've seen this is both the most complicated and it's just fascinating
because it's such a great amalgamation of the blaster itself the accessories that performance
serious performance upgrades and then of course although 3d printed parts and his
detail is awesome I mean I love the hex logo I love all the little details I think it's just
such a nice blaster overall and it's kind of the design aesthetic that I am definitely inspiring
to improve I'm about to switch softwares for the third time. Thanks for watching. I hope
you enjoyed this look at Eli's blaster hex. I'll link to his YouTube channel in the comments below
and let me know what you think of this. Until next time, this is Eli, and I'm out of darts.