There’s a new gunslinger in town and he goes by Ruppernutter on thingiverse. This remix uses some of the original hardware and none of the prints. It can fire Mega XL at 55 fps average
There’s a new gunslinger in town and he goes by Ruppernutter on thingiverse. This remix uses some of the original hardware and none of the prints. It can fire Mega XL at 55 fps average
It’ll be the more accessible option for now, but that changes very quickly. Not too long ago, the Farshot was the most amazing thing since sliced bread, and the Rainbow pistol was outdated. Fast forward a few years and I can still make a Rainbow pistol, whereas the Farshots, their ammo, and their upgrade springs are already forgotten.
Long-term, the community blasters (with the ability to modify files for variable hardware) are going to outlast any retail product.
While I do totally agree that a community based design with a hardware list and printable files will outlast a niche one off product from a smaller toy manufacturer than nerf, I think it’s slightly unfair to compare the max outlaw and the farshot. Boomco was a new ammo type made by only one company and obviously just stopped existing once boomco stopped producing their ammo. Maybe there was 3rd part boomco I didn’t know about though. Also though, there are still websites offering rainbow pistol hardware kits in the US as far as I’m aware where there is no one who sells YEHW hardware kits. Now, it’s not exactly DIFFICULT to source the hardware, but even people who print their own blasters don’t necessarily want to do that.
It may be a hassle to source the hardware yourself, but it will still be significantly easier than trying to obtain discontinued blasters after enough time has passed. Plus, printed files can be modified to take new hardware.
Absolutely, I totally agree with you. Just being pedantic about the details.