Meaker VI

You use a MOSFET to offset the high-amp draw of the motors. IDK if those motors need a MOSFET offhand, but I hear they're amp hungry so it probably wouldn't hurt. Most regular hobby motors (Valks, M2's, Rhinos, etc.) are fine on just a switch.

 

The disintegration of forums and the balkanization of online social media is not unique to Nerf at all. It's completely common nowadays to have multiple parallel social groups of a particular hobby active in the same geographic area, and be completely unaware of each other. It's interesting how the internet of 2000-2010 had a lot of centralized hobbyist forums that really brought everyone together, and how much that has disintegrated in a few short years.

Yeah this is my read on it. Monolithic social media platforms emerged; niche hobby sites died. Several of the big ones are likely to survive for some time, and may survive beyond social media, but we weren't big enough to weather the storm.

I will say though, The reddit is now nearly to 50k subscribers, so there still are a few major bastions of the hobby.

As a hopper fed blaster, I don't see the benefit of converting a persus to a sniper blaster. Its role is in suppression fire, sniping isn't something it is designed to do.

If you want a real sniper, consider converting a knockout to fire darts. If you want something aesthetic, you'll be hampered by the requirement to provide a barrel sufficient for HIRs to pass through unhindered - it'll be ~1-1/2" diameter or so and look chunky.