hooray for black nail polish!
nice work! need a beat tester? lol.
I teared a little hearing that!
mental note: buy some black nail polish to make my tools list complete.
Also:“some of my girls black nail polish”. There’s an apostrophe missing somewhere, surely ? Either that or you sold so many Cthulhus that you can REALLY have several girls at the same time 
Very nice to hear this project getting underway Toodles! I can’t wait to see this come to its final phases. Best of luck to you man! :tup:
as bison would say… YESSSSSS YESSSSSSSSS YESSSSSSSSSS!
Getting hype for this!
Could be Toodles’ own nail polish, in “girls black” colour.
Anyway, good news is awesome. :tup:
A local player put some of the nail polish on a housing for him, and it was rather erratic. He’s going to spraypaint the whole housing and try again. Man, I’m telling you, this thing is a simple circuit, but damn hard to nail down and test. The first one I painted seemed to activate at about half throw, instead of the 1/3 of the throw I’m used to seeing with JLF and flash boards. That has me a bit confused because since the actuator moves out of the way to expose the sensor, then making the slits smaller would mean it’d have to travel further to activate, but I’m pretty sure the current slits are wider than a flash’s. Grrrr…
Wow this is looking more real every day man!
this is hype!
Toodles:
I gave the molding a spray paint job, both inner and outer sides, (2-3 layers). Threw it in a TE with the Cthu. installed, and played. Corners seemed to be working alright, remember how I had those issues with fei long chicken wing motions and whatnot. Well with the case sprayed a dark dark black, it didn’t have those issues as much. BUT. there was a random problem, after about 15 minutes of play, i started to feel a weird delay. As if the juice was running out; I don’t know how to explain it, but it went from responsive, to slowly dying down. Like it was a wireless control stick that was working on batteries, and as those batteries were dying; it would begin to add delay for some reason. Then the motions would act strange afterward.
Getting hype indeed, how’s it coming along Toodles? An announcement at EVO would sure hype it up like CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY. I’m talking McDonald’s consumer sized purchases haha.
Nah, there’s wont be anything about the spark about Evo. Work continues, but its not ready yet.
Bumping this, so I can vanity search later when I want! DO WANT!
Alright, minor status update. Ramon (local tester) and I both completely agree that housing needs to work better. So, I sat down with a guy who knows Solidworks, and we drew up a new housing with better compartments to separate everything. I also talked with him about getting these proto’s milled, since the SLA machine can’t do opaque plastic. I need to get pick up some blocks of plastic for them to mill tomorrow, and order some new pcb’s with the components arranged to avoid the new walls. So, hopefully new housings in a week or so, and new pcb’s to match in 3 weeks. New, better design, better made housings, so keep fingers crossed. We’ll see how they work with those designs and go from there.
great news, can’t wait to see how these new designs fair in testing.
Plastic blocks were dropped off to be milled. I’m looking at having 1 of them made with posts to fit an original flash pcb, and 4 of them to be made with posts to fit my spark board. The guy who will be using the part files to code the CNC mill step files should start work on the step files tomorrow, with hopefully about 1 to 1.5 weeks before they’re ready to be picked up.
If anyone has a flash with a busted plastic housing, let me know, I may have a replacement in a few weeks. Otherwise, stay tuned, I’ll post up info as it happens, but at the moment we’re still waiting on milled prototype housings to be made.
Watching with interest.
Toodles
da Fetus of Gawd!
^^^ no joke
Hey thanks for the update Toodles! I keep popping my head in here to see the progress, and it’s looking good man.