The Arduino Uno Board

Connecting various bits and bobs to the Arduino Uno board is the easy bit. I ended up using the prototyping Uno board and jumper wires as permanent connections. It works alright, but probably isn’t a great practice. I decided to trim a few millimeters off the jumper leads so they would [...]

The Research

OK, so I got some “Introduction to Electronics” books from Amazon and read some stuff and learnt some theory (Still not great with that). I also studied the basic components from a tutorial I found at www.electronicsteacher.com. It took a while, but it was really worth it and I didn’t need all of [...]

Screwdriver, Meet Nerf Vulcan

I have disassembled the Nerf Vulcan Gun so I know exactly what I’m dealing with on the inside. This post will take you through how I disassembling the gun, which took a little research and effort to remove some parts of the gun.

Unlike other tutorials, I’ve had the gun for [...]

Since Christmas 2010, Nerf have got my love quite a bit. They are simply quite fun. My latest Nerf gun is the Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25, an automatic belt fed gun which can fire 3 darts per second.

I’ve seen some YouTube videos where people have modified it to include a motion sensor and have [...]