arduino: a cheap board for E11 blaster effects

[Arnie_DK[TK]]

Love it!!

[skyone]

more pics from today, with the blaster firing at will

(only the first is me, the others was a garrison member using my arduino blaster)

 

 

 

 

Edited October 8, 2012 by skyone

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Awesome

[skyone]

i am still unsure if remove the on/off status blue light because it's too powerful and bright

or maybe i can direct the light emitted to the front filter of the hengstler..

or maybe i will add just a plastic cover

Edited October 3, 2012 by skyone

[Brigante[TK]]

Hi Manuel!

 

I am interested in purchasing an Arduino for my Blaster, but ... is it possible to somehow adapt to SDS?

 

Thanks and greetings from Spain

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

i am still unsure if remove the on/off status blue light because it's too powerful and bright

or maybe i can direct the light emitted to the front filter of the hengstler..

or maybe i will add just a plastic cover

 

It may be a hi-bright led, you make be able to get a duller one or even add a resister to the led to reduce the power to it

[skyone]

Hi Manuel!

 

I am interested in purchasing an Arduino for my Blaster, but ... is it possible to somehow adapt to SDS?

 

Thanks and greetings from Spain

i don't think u can use the sds blaster with arduino+mp3 board+speakers, there is not enought space; also the mp3 board need some extra millimeters in the hengstler counter as well the battery inside the receiver. This project fit a pvc/metal pipe blaster with a custom hengestler and receiver.

 

It may be a hi-bright led, you make be able to get a duller one or even add a resister to the led to reduce the power to it

you are right, i can also decrease the brightness via arduino but i think it will absorb the same energy and it's not very efficient that way (as well adding a resistor). If i dont' need that light it's better to change the led. So first i will test moving the led and adding a cover, after that i will decide..

[TK9926]

That's just amazing! Great work.

Edited October 7, 2012 by CT9926

[skyone]

today i changed the front speaker with this one, 2w 8ohm

the loudness is almost like the old one and the quality is much better because of wider range of frequencies (170 hz -20 khz)

 

Edit: this speaker has issues with the mini-amp, had to remove and put back the old speaker!

 

 

so i got the chance to take some pictures of the weapon, battled-damaged after 2 war-events

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 1, 2012 by skyone

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Nice photo's, think I may have to look at upgrading my electronics

 

Great work Manuel (oh put some black on that sd card lol)

[skyone]

thanks, yea i should change the sd card with a black one

[Trooper328]

fits the hasbro? do i have to gut the internals and swap it for the new ones?

[skyone]

fits the hasbro? do i have to gut the internals and swap it for the new ones?

i dont' think hasbro have space to place the mp3 player board

[tk1995]

This is great and I'm going to give building it a shot. Does this method allow for RGB LEDs along the barrel like the blaster core version? Thank you for sharing your work.

 

Bob

[skyone]

This is great and I'm going to give building it a shot. Does this method allow for RGB LEDs along the barrel like the blaster core version? Thank you for sharing your work.

 

Bob

this is not implemented in this version

Edited November 22, 2012 by skyone

[skyone]

New pictures of the blaster in action during the past weekend event in Rome (Ludica)

 

 

 

guess wich one is the kenner led..

 

 

 

latest video

 

p.s.

i had to remove the new speaker because of some issues with the mini-amp.

Edited December 1, 2012 by skyone

[nmcguff]

I am considering on making one for myself. I have the software file for the Arduino. Can you post the sound files in a ZIP file? Thanks.

[Beren[501st]]

This is an amazing thread! Thanks for taking the time to post this in detail.

[skyone]

This is an amazing thread! Thanks for taking the time to post this in detail.

thanks

 

I am considering on making one for myself. I have the software file for the Arduino. Can you post the sound files in a ZIP file? Thanks.

i sent you a pm

[Paquitosoler]

Impresionante! Enhorabuena

¿Icomm o fx/armor con arduino?

[mr0072003[501st]]

Man if you sold this kit. I would be ALL OVER IT. This is great, and now everything else seems subpar!

[skyone]

Man if you sold this kit. I would be ALL OVER IT. This is great, and now everything else seems subpar!

thanks, i may consider selling this in the future but, at the same time, i hope you will get the right help to build it, as you said in the other forum

 

p.s.

i added more informations about the battery in the first page.

[Paquitosoler]

Skyone,

icomm o fx/armor con arduino?

Be possible?

[Jeepfrog[TK]]

Skyone

 

thanks for sharing you did a great job on this i plan to make one but with less features

[skyone]

i just completed a slight modification:

I plugged the hole on the left side of the counter and I moved the blue LED inside the counter, with the light facing up. In this way we can see the blue pulsing light which indicates the state ON, via the net in front of the counter. Before it was too bright and not very canon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

p.s.

just a note about a new mp3 sound module found that may fit this project. This is the link to the ebay seller

From description datasheet it plays mp3 files via serial RS232 mode (that means can be controlled easily trought arduino), powered by 5volts

it's cheaper (19$ / 15€) and smaller (because it uses micro-sd instead of SD card) and may works fine with arduino.

I just bought 1 for test.

Edited February 17, 2013 by skyone