For some of the smaller pieces, we ended up keeping the metallic filament but for body of the gun I just ended up using regular PLA (The see-through bits are still PLA, which can be produced to be transparent)
I bought a fairly low metal content filament but to be honest I think this was the worst of all worlds: It was brittle, slow to print, kept clogging up my printer and the results didn’t really look much better than regular PLA filament that had been painted. Depending on the ratio of metal to plastic you can either have filament that’s easy to work with, or looks really metallic, or at least that’s the theory. I said before the plan was to 3D print the metallic parts with a metal filament plastic filament that contains a certain amount of metal particles. You can see here that the new bit (I started calling it a spindle in my head) sits within the barrel, but it is joined to the interior of the post that holds the bearing the spindle stays still so the magnet stays at the top, and the barrel revolves around it. In the end, I happened on the idea of having a solid structure inside the barrel that stayed fixed to the main body, that the barrel could rotate around: the newly designed spindle in green, with a slightly smaller magnet in purple The only place on the body where I could have fitted a magnet would have been where the battery was designed to go, which would have involved a large redesign. It took me a long time to figure this one out. This would only ever have worked if the barrel was upside down! When the barrel was the right way up, the switches would have been nowhere near. In my head, this was going to be so simple three reed switches in the barrel (you can see in purple where i was going to nestle them in) and one magnet in the space below in the body of the gun (purple again):īarrel is the right way up, but the switches are nowhere near the magnet When you bring them near a magnet, the reeds bend, touch each other, and complete the circuit. Reed switches are tiny flexible metal plates (the reeds), set in an little glass tube. My plan here was to incorporate three little reed switches into the barrel, so the Arduino would know which way the barrel was rotated, and which effect to ‘fire’. In the game the gun has three barrels that each have a different elemental effect the player directs Fiona to rotate the barrel, to choose the desired effect before taking her shot. It’s a great game and you should play it. Just to recap, I’m making a prop gun for my friend Thomas (aka who is cosplaying as Fiona from ‘Tales from the Borderlands’. It threw me a bit, but I got there in the end.
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When I last wrote about it (in October!) I was waiting for parts- they duly arrived, and when I started figuring out how to put it all together I realised I’d made a bit of a mistake with the design. Vaughn, Rhys and Yvette concoct a plan to get back at Vasquez, and greatly increase their position on the Hyperion ladder - Vasquez has set up a deal, involving 10 million dollars and a vault key.It’s fair to say I stalled a bit with this project. Vaughn sees Rhys walking angrily out of Vasquez's office, and has overheard their conversation - Rhys has been "promoted" to Assistant Vice Janitor. "A few stabs in select backs" have gotten him extremely close to his promotion, and Vaughn chats with Rhys about what he will do after he gets promoted - however, in place of Henderson, their boss, they see Rhys' much hated rival, Hugo Vasquez, who has murdered Henderson and stolen his position. Rhys and Vaughn are first seen at the Helios space station - they have been working towards getting Rhys the promotion that would change their lives, as well as their friend Yvette's. He assures Rhys that it was only to 'get him off our back', sincerely apologizing for his actions. Vaughn's trust also becomes questionable, as it is revealed he arranged a deal with Vasquez to 'sell out' Rhys. He proudly announces that he 'is not afraid', although flinches at the sound of Rhys receiving a call from Yvette. In Episode 2, his 'fearless' side comes shining through. However, he will try to pull through these for his friends, displaying his loyalty. He is also shown to be afraid of dangerous situations, often whimpering and cowering in fear. Despite his wits, he is also shown to be naïve and dependent, as shown when he and Rhys were under attack by bandits. Vaughn is a likeable, intelligent, and loyal character.
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