I tinkered with the shock blaster some more, and now I'm finally done. I wanted this one to have a rich sound. I drilled through the walnut M1 garand stock, so I could put a speaker in the butt. Here's the before picture.
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I tinkered with the shock blaster some more, and now I'm finally done. I wanted this one to have a rich sound. I drilled through the walnut M1 garand stock, so I could put a speaker in the butt. Here's the before picture.
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Here's what the butt looks like with a familiar part covering the speaker...
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Here's a photo of the finished product...
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Here's a link to a video showing some of the blaster features...
https://youtu.be/imzsFcYmcmA
Here's a look at the internals:
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Here are some details on the parts:
Blaster Core Sound Module V5
Rumble motor taken from Xbox controller (wired to the aux flash)
Panasonic 7.4v Li-ion 3400mAh 18650 Battery Pack
Stereo 2.1W Class D Audio Amplifier
One 28mm bass speaker (shown in the picture, place backwards in a speaker holder)
One 28mm premium speaker (placed in the butt stock)
Custom Tri-Cree LED (RB, RB, Amber) (but I am using only one RB and one Amber right now)
Various MHS parts
Various aluminum tubes
M1 Garand hilt, chopped up
Very cool looking blaster bro....me likie. /thumbs up
I got a chance to show off this shock bllaster yesterday. People thought it was really cool. They were really impressed by the smoke effect. What?!! A wire shorted out and started burning. Dang! I don't yet know if the blaster core was damaged. I found two worn wires. I think they were caught in the bolt action somehow. I guess I'll have to rethink the design. Dang!
Looks like the weapon of choice for a Jawa scavenger looking to score some astro-mech action. How much hollowing out did you have to do on the stock for the switch and speaker? My heart sank a little when you stated that the trigger and chassis were donors from a M1-Grand. I can still hear the "ping" from the stripper clips after the last shell is fired.
There's tons oh M-1 stocks on eBay. People make lamps out of them. It only took about ten minutes to drill out the stock.
I got frustrated with the mess of wires and gutted the whole thing. Now there's no wiring at all. I'll get back to it later, after I work out the bolt action better.
The dual shock motor was pretty cool though.