Hi, I'm Out of Darts. Today, I am bringing you a completely original blaster from scratch. now
a couple weeks ago I did another little pistol version but this is a lot more complicated design
this is also my entry for the 3d printing group on Facebook was having this great contest where
I think the grand prize is an ultimate Gore 2 plus which is pretty amazing so thanks to
the sponsors who are putting this together and thanks to the admins who are running the contest
I think the group has like 18,000 members so I expect to see a lot of entries and without
any more delaying this is sill or sylph Reena my completely original blaster it is loosely based
on the hero Kane design as you can definitely see the tubes it shoots rival balls for those
that aren't familiar with rival it's nerve snore about a year year and a half old line of blasters
they've got 4 blasters out currently everything from a pump-action to a single-shot to a full
auto blaster this blaster holds 65 rounds it's full auto it has a very controlled fire rate
and overall I'm really thrilled with it now I will turn it around and show you that it is not
as completed as I would like this was only a four week contest so I didn't have quite as much polish
time as I might on a normal design so eventually these wires will be covered and everything will
be internal this will have a nice casing here but essentially the way this works is I've got
a Arduino processor in here thanks Eli who did all the processing and programming rather he's the guy
that did the amazing brushless rapid strike for drak and he saved my butt on this one because he
helped me with all the programming because that's way beyond my capabilities but essentially what
I've got is a brushless motor up here that has EDF which is an electronic ducted fan it's like
a little mini jet engine you can sort of think of it but electronic it blows the balls through four
sets of tubes and then out kind of your standard fly wheels these flywheels are worker brand that
you can buy online and basically everything on the blaster is 3d printed aside from the obvious
electronics a magnet enclosure the motors the fly wheels the blow and of course buttons now
you'll see I have three switches here one is the red trigger which revs both the flywheels
and the blower which will feed and shoot the blaster the second on the side is a feed only
trigger and what that does is it runs just the feed mechanism just the blower at a lower rate
to actually feed the blaster that way you don't have to make as much noise as when running all
three blasters when you're playing with it and then the third of course is our actual trigger
and the actual trigger runs a roller mechanism I think a few other people are probably doing
something similar I started with a I built feed much like what nerf had done and realized that the
belt feed was totally overkill because essentially what this little blower does or roller excuse me
is just feeds balls nice and evenly one of the problems with my here cane the mod that I make
for this other thing I'll link the video here it's a mod for a nerf blaster one issue with it is that
it tends to feed a little radically it feeds a little slower when it's full and it feeds really
fast when it's almost empty this this evens it out into a nice even firing pace and it's really
simple if I got a little geared motor there and eventually I'll add fire control where we'll have
full auto semi auto and three-shot bursts as well which can all be controlled by the Arduino I've
still got a long ways to go as far as the final final design but I this is my first project that
I did in 1 2 3 D made by Autodesk I moved from Tinkercad previously which just is not capable
of making designs like this unfortunately and so it was a huge learning curve this is easily the
most ambitious project I've done to date and it was a heck of a lot of fun it's also been
one of the most frustrating things I've done the blaster is super lightweight its bullpup style so
it feels very compact I find that when I play I like to run in and just come around corners
and shooting immediately and I tend to hit people kind of closer than I mean to and with a 3s lipo
on my other blaster I found that to be a bit much especially since the fire rate isn't always very
controlled so this is a little bit toned down with worker flywheels and Hellcats it shoots
about 90 feet per second which is roughly stock Zuse performance and stock chaos performance so
it's pretty decent as well as having 65 rounds everything right now runs off a 2s lipo and it's
printed in I think eight different pieces one two three four five six seven eight and a ninth
piece for the pusher so nine 3d printed pieces total I did go with blaze orange tip because I
want to make sure it doesn't look like a blaster or a gun excuse me definitely want it to look
like a toy and in the future I'll probably do a painted ones though I'm kind of liking this gray
so I might print a whole one that's gray with the orange tip now for a quick firing test now
this is actually the second firing test I've shot because I was really unhappy with the rate of fire
because I'm missing the right pusher motor which will spin faster than the other one so what I did
is I went and really quickly threw in a DC boost circuit to up the rate of fire on the mechanism
to match what it should be when I get the proper motor and whatnot so here's a quick test
I'm laughing because my wife is behind the camera cringing. Thank you, sweetie. Anyway,
that's my design; I'm super thrilled with it, and I can't wait to keep going on it. It's by far the
most adventurous thing I've done, you'll notice. Instead of being like stupid cylinders that I made
before in Tinkercad, I've really taken the design to the next step. This grip feels really good in
your hands, the balance is great, the batteries in the back so the balance is is pretty nice,
and I think that's great because you can just whip this around really fast,
so thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed this, and I'd love to hear your thoughts
on it and where it could go and wish me luck in the contest. Until next time, I'm out of darts.