For a period of time, our office was in an all-out Nerf war. Truly, there were battles to be remembered. To gain true superiority, I decided it was necessary to, not only get a weapon superior to others, but modify it to gain yet more power.
It all started with a Nerf N-Strike Rayven. For those not well versed in the world of foam darts, the N-Strike series is designed with battles in mind, utilizing aerodynamically streamlined darts. The Rayven is one of the guns that uses spinning wheels powered by batteries rather than air to propel the darts. The wheels counterrotate, the dart is pressed between them, and the wheels fling it forward.
The major advantage of the Rayven for my purposes was that, it was designed with a neat little trick of using glow-in-the-dark darts, with little lights in the magazine that charged them with light before they were fired. Pretty cool trick, if you're into that sort of thing. What made it even more appealing, was that the lights were powered by a separate bank of batteries.
With a little ingenuity, screwdrivers, and hot glue, I re-worked the circuitry to be able to include the magazine's battery bank in with the primary bank that powers the motors. This ran 10.5v through them, rather than the paltry 6v that comes stock (when I wanted the power, that is. The switch on the trigger guard allowed the overclocking to be activated or disabled). With the additional voltage running through the motors, I was able to improve the distance it threw darts by 50% - a nice little bump. A quick-release, reversable connection between the magazine and the body ensured that reloading could be quick and polarity was never a concern.
They never saw it coming.
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