Hi, I'm Out of Darts. Today, I am really, really excited to show you the next iteration of project
HIR-mini. this project has been a long time in the works and I finally decided to bring on some
help and get somebody else to work on the modeling with me prior to this I started with some pretty
clunky design some prototypes with some internal mags that I remember having a lot of fun playing
with they worked they were functional but they had things like motors sticking out of them or
no motor cover at all my final iteration was a really tiny sweet little thing I'm really proud
of the handle and how it felt but at the same time it still had exposed motors it had to be
glued together and had really ugly wire paths now I partnered up with a friend of mine Tariq who has
done all the design work on this current version he took my original designs and threw them out and
then took basic parameters and things to redesign the handle redesign the shell put a proper body
around it proper battery compartment you may remember that the last one was actually glued
in place and I'm really excited with where these are going now these are not done we've actually
already had a couple iterations since this we've got some changes we're working on and and an
actual name for it but overall we are getting very close we're gonna have these out very very
early next year I'm hoping by January and I'm just thrilled with how they're working he's made a lot
of improvements that I wasn't able to do myself and just didn't have the time to do and we've been
kind of bouncing back and forth and working on the design and for those who just want to see a firing
demo I'll go ahead and do that this is a 600 rpm motor one of the cool features we're gonna have
is you're going to be able to choose different rpm motors for how fast you want it to shoot I believe
that was 12 rounds and we're now empty this will of course take short mags as well and these are a
heck of a lot of fun to play with and really easy to reload this is probably around a 300 rpm motor
so it's a bit slower but even with the faster one I am still able to pull off single shots so about
the design we've started over from scratch because my original designs were really based on the most
minimalist approach possible and that didn't leave any proper room for wires batteries lipo
voltage alarms and other things that you might actually want this current version has a proper
flywheel cage plot proper motor mounts shells that fit together in two halves so they're a
little easier and cleaner for production they also don't need to be glued together so these
are all normal screw holes like you'd find in a nerf blaster and even the flywheel Kage mounts
from the same for external screws go all the way through the cage holding that in place I'm just
thrilled with how it's working one other cool feature that Drac did with a Zeus a long time
ago was to take Megas and shoot them out of here now Tariq realized that this actually shoots Megas
really well you do have to put a ball or two in front to stop them but you can essentially fit
two Megas and four rival balls and it gets pretty good ranges this current design is using worker
wheels so the worker rules are actually pretty easy on the mega darts they don't actually crush
them like the Zeus ones do which tend to cut them in half so here's a quick firing of mega darts
Now there I only managed to get both of them off at the same time but it is possible to load three
rivals in the middle of one in the front and then you're able to in theory single fire the mega now
that's really interesting for places where you might have a mega as a specialty item work and
peer shields or destroy shields like at Nova Khan in the Bay Area so it'd be really cool to just
have that mega round handy whenever you want slap it in and go anyway that's where we're at on this
I will have these out very soon I'd love to hear your feedback on what you think of the design so
far we have a few cosmetic changes and a name will be added on as well as a few minor tweaks
on functionality but we would really appreciate your feedback and let us know what you think I do
know that one of the first things that's going to come up in the comments is why didn't you make it
grip fed where the mag goes through the grip and there are a couple reasons for this first of all
the Mahara and the Apollo which are both grip fed have massive handles that are really quite
uncomfortable and they're even more awkward on a design this large second because we're 3d printing
we can't make the walls as thin as an injection molded piece would be and then it wouldn't leave
room for proper switches and other components that we need to fit in there so we found that
designing for a grip fed rival Blaster 3d printed it would have made for even a larger grip than
the HERA which has come out recently and it's just not what we want to make we really want to
make a small compact sidearm and I think that it's a better product having it function this
way for a variety of reasons mostly for design and just pure aesthetics and functionality and
the feel in your hand anyway I'd love to know what you think I hope you enjoyed this video;
there's gonna be a lot more to come. I have a lot of video content queued up,
and I'm really excited to get back onto regular videos. And until next time, I'm out of darts.