Biblically-Accurate Nerf Blaster 🔫👁️👼 The Ophanim, Part I
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Support the channel to watch me yap about 3D-printed blaster grip design for over 20 minutes! https://www.patreon.com/posts/136206272
Join my welcoming project-building community! https://discord.gg/voidstarlab
Thanks to Alice "Coatduck" Tyrell for critical support (and critical critique!) Her own blaster concept art strongly influenced the Ophanim. See her phenomenal projects and far better videography at https://www.youtube.com/@AliceTyrell/featured
This project is dedicated to the memory of Mike "Mynki" Brennan, original concept artist and art director of Warframe. https://www.digitalextremes.com/news/remembering-mike-mynki-brennan
This project *WILL BE OPEN-SOURCED.* I'll release the design files, BOM, firmware, assembly instructions, and documentation once the project is more mature.
PROJECT CREDITS:
- 3D-printed Volcanic Replica by Dreyse (paid model) https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/volcanic-pistol-non-firing-replica
- Flywheel cage is copied, pasted, and modded from the Gryphon by Flygonial https://www.printables.com/model/208101-the-gryphon-foam-dart-blaster
- English font: Mythology of Egypt by Afiq Anggriawan https://www.dafont.com/mythology-of-egypt.font
- Enochian font (Co-Lab-Orator inscriptions:) Enochian Font by Digital Type Foundry https://www.fontspace.com/enochian-font-f6183
- Enochian font (all other inscriptions:) Enochian by Glumbosch https://www.dafont.com/enochian.font
- Ammo counter lettering: Tapir by Jacob Ritt https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-72919.html
"As I looked at the 3D-printed blaster, I saw a revolving cylinder in the receiver behind the magazines, each with its ten darts, and in front of the electronics compartment, which extended the length of pull. This was the appearance and structure of the blaster: Its metallic PETG sparkled like topaz, and its gray PETG had a marble-like appearance. The loading system appeared to be made like a wheel mounted on another wheel. As it moved, it would go to any one of the five tubular magazines above the false barrel; the other wheel would change direction if you insert a dart backwards. The aesthetics were highly awesome, and basically every flat surface was full of eyes all around.
When the trigger was halfway pulled, flywheels would rev up, and when the trigger bottomed out, the cylinder would maneuver a dart into the firing position. Wherever the half-gear would turn, the pusher would push through the cylinder, and the dart would push along with it, because if it didn't, it wouldn't be a very good pusher. When the dart moved into the first stage of flywheels, the flywheels would move the dart; when the dart reached the second set of flywheels, those flywheels would also move the dart except faster; and when the dart passed the flywheel cage, it would fly through an awkwardly long false barrel, because the tube mags made the front of the blaster so awkwardly long."
-- Ezackiel 4:20-69
Printers provided by Prusa Research, Bambu Labs, and Lulzbot Inc. All materials purchased for this experiment, including filament, were funded by Patron support and Amazon affiliate credit.
Note: Nerf blasters do not appear in the Old or New Testament. However, A) Jesus may have honed his table-flipping skills while creating cover in Nerf battles, and B) Moses split the Red Sea with a Beyblade.
TIMETABLE:
00:00 Intro
02:28 A Labor of Spite
04:26 Inspiration Strikes (or bites)
06:38 Proving the Concept
08:53 Zack Gets Obsessed
10:57 Picking Proper Parts
13:30 Behold the Ophanim
16:17 Designing the Blaster
20:46 Zack Gets REALLY Obsessed
24:19 The End of the Ophanim
26:43 Supporter Thanks
CREDITS:
Biblically-accurate onion ring: RealKidsofYouTube on Twitter
"Biblically Accurate Angels" by Jacob Coyne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrNA1c8Zpk
"Is this the ultimate flywheeler?" by Out of Darts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwqfprcYDzQ
"The Strap - Nerf Titan Upgrade" by Alice Tyrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAW59tNc9ww
"Fabucannon - Fully 3D Printed Rainbow Hand Cannon" by Alice Tyrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_tB-gi2UFw
"The Carbide Cannon" by Alice Tyrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKu_3NgYAt4
Interference SFX by Partners in Rhyme
Support the channel to watch me yap about 3D-printed blaster grip design for over 20 minutes! https://www.patreon.com/posts/136206272
Join my welcoming project-building community! https://discord.gg/voidstarlab
Thanks to Alice "Coatduck" Tyrell for critical support (and critical critique!) Her own blaster concept art strongly influenced the Ophanim. See her phenomenal projects and far better videography at https://www.youtube.com/@AliceTyrell/featured
This project is dedicated to the memory of Mike "Mynki" Brennan, original concept artist and art director of Warframe. https://www.digitalextremes.com/news/remembering-mike-mynki-brennan
This project *WILL BE OPEN-SOURCED.* I'll release the design files, BOM, firmware, assembly instructions, and documentation once the project is more mature.
PROJECT CREDITS:
- 3D-printed Volcanic Replica by Dreyse (paid model) https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/volcanic-pistol-non-firing-replica
- Flywheel cage is copied, pasted, and modded from the Gryphon by Flygonial https://www.printables.com/model/208101-the-gryphon-foam-dart-blaster
- English font: Mythology of Egypt by Afiq Anggriawan https://www.dafont.com/mythology-of-egypt.font
- Enochian font (Co-Lab-Orator inscriptions:) Enochian Font by Digital Type Foundry https://www.fontspace.com/enochian-font-f6183
- Enochian font (all other inscriptions:) Enochian by Glumbosch https://www.dafont.com/enochian.font
- Ammo counter lettering: Tapir by Jacob Ritt https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-72919.html
"As I looked at the 3D-printed blaster, I saw a revolving cylinder in the receiver behind the magazines, each with its ten darts, and in front of the electronics compartment, which extended the length of pull. This was the appearance and structure of the blaster: Its metallic PETG sparkled like topaz, and its gray PETG had a marble-like appearance. The loading system appeared to be made like a wheel mounted on another wheel. As it moved, it would go to any one of the five tubular magazines above the false barrel; the other wheel would change direction if you insert a dart backwards. The aesthetics were highly awesome, and basically every flat surface was full of eyes all around.
When the trigger was halfway pulled, flywheels would rev up, and when the trigger bottomed out, the cylinder would maneuver a dart into the firing position. Wherever the half-gear would turn, the pusher would push through the cylinder, and the dart would push along with it, because if it didn't, it wouldn't be a very good pusher. When the dart moved into the first stage of flywheels, the flywheels would move the dart; when the dart reached the second set of flywheels, those flywheels would also move the dart except faster; and when the dart passed the flywheel cage, it would fly through an awkwardly long false barrel, because the tube mags made the front of the blaster so awkwardly long."
-- Ezackiel 4:20-69
Printers provided by Prusa Research, Bambu Labs, and Lulzbot Inc. All materials purchased for this experiment, including filament, were funded by Patron support and Amazon affiliate credit.
Note: Nerf blasters do not appear in the Old or New Testament. However, A) Jesus may have honed his table-flipping skills while creating cover in Nerf battles, and B) Moses split the Red Sea with a Beyblade.
TIMETABLE:
00:00 Intro
02:28 A Labor of Spite
04:26 Inspiration Strikes (or bites)
06:38 Proving the Concept
08:53 Zack Gets Obsessed
10:57 Picking Proper Parts
13:30 Behold the Ophanim
16:17 Designing the Blaster
20:46 Zack Gets REALLY Obsessed
24:19 The End of the Ophanim
26:43 Supporter Thanks
CREDITS:
Biblically-accurate onion ring: RealKidsofYouTube on Twitter
"Biblically Accurate Angels" by Jacob Coyne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrNA1c8Zpk
"Is this the ultimate flywheeler?" by Out of Darts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwqfprcYDzQ
"The Strap - Nerf Titan Upgrade" by Alice Tyrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAW59tNc9ww
"Fabucannon - Fully 3D Printed Rainbow Hand Cannon" by Alice Tyrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_tB-gi2UFw
"The Carbide Cannon" by Alice Tyrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKu_3NgYAt4
Interference SFX by Partners in Rhyme
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