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0. PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:23 pm    Post subject: Awesome new pad design "Decepticon" Reply with quote

Ive decided I will name my line of custom pads after stuff in transformers! My current hardpad AKA Proto-Photon is tired, and it literally is starting to split apart.

I have designed a new didder homebrew pad thats big, heavy, and uber awesome! I do not have pictures yet, It was designed in 3d on my macbook, but now I need to get my macbook fixed, it is sitting in the apple store awaiting repair.

Anyways the new "Decepticon" will be 3"x37"x41", and it will be constructed from half inch board, those 2 inch fence poles (the wooden square kind), and will probably be around 50 pounds. It will have some awesome acrylic panels, doublelayered 1/4 inch, and it will have some badbutt easily-servicable aluminum tape sensors. Why? Cuz its cheap E10.gif

THe cost will most likely be 100 or so dollars, but I will get my funding from mr piggybank and from cashcrate. My current spending plan is to get roughly 60 percent from my piggy bank and roughly 40 percent from my cashcrate earnings, which were 30 dollars last time. This time I am going to switch to CashLagoon, which I heard really works too, and is also pay-pal-able.

I will find wayz to cut the price down. ALso, I am salvaging electronics from my uber-phailed Splinter and from the rundown Photon. I hope to get it lower than 60 dollars.

BTW the paint job will be on aluminum flashing, it will be aluminum with black paint splatters and some heavy scratches. This is NOT going to be a "barefoot or socks" pad.
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1. PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't use aluminum tape unless you know for 100% sure that it's conductive.
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2. PostPosted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know. BTW I know for sure aluminum tape is not good at all for durability. I plan to keep a little hollow "toolbox" area in one of the stationary squares, which will hold the rolls of tape and LEDs and stuff.
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3. PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OrangeJuice wrote:
Don't use aluminum tape unless you know for 100% sure that it's conductive.

Aluminum isnt worth a monkeycrap...Use real metals for your sensors..
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4. PostPosted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OrangeJuice wrote:
Don't use aluminum tape unless you know for 100% sure that it's conductive.

Me and my dad replaced that poopy that coats the bottom of cheap pad's arrows with a regular aluminum tape and it worked much better. I think most of them will conduct, just depends on whether you buy some crap that's mixed with a bunch of metals to save money or something.
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5. PostPosted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Update: For te Depecticon I will add spinnaz ont he side. Every time an arrow is pressed it will light up AND a circuit will spin 4 spinnaz with cheap electric motors.
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6. PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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7. PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The pad wil need to be 6 inches tall for that tho. But that offers lots of room for some stuff.

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8. PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

大見解 | DDR wrote:
The pad wil need to be 6 inches tall for that tho. But that offers lots of room for some stuff.

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Simply saying something isn't a whoring post when it is a whoring post doesn't change what it is.

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9. PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, especially when it's on a thread everyone else can read.

But on topic (before this thread gets locked), might I suggest posting this in the "Home Built Metal DDR Pad (Part IV)" thread? I dunno how the Dancing Tofu thread stayed alive, but I am assuming it has something to do with how it's not just talking about what that person is going to do.
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10. PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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But on topic (before this thread gets locked), might I suggest posting this in the "Home Built Metal DDR Pad (Part IV)" thread? I dunno how the Dancing Tofu thread stayed alive, but I am assuming it has something to do with how it's not just talking about what that person is going to do.



BUT HIS PAD HAS SPINNAZ SO IT DESERVES ITS OWN THREAD.
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11. PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RandomUser wrote:
Yeah, especially when it's on a thread everyone else can read.

But on topic (before this thread gets locked), might I suggest posting this in the "Home Built Metal DDR Pad (Part IV)" thread? I dunno how the Dancing Tofu thread stayed alive, but I am assuming it has something to do with how it's not just talking about what that person is going to do.
I think my pad thread stayed alive because I was actually being realistic and discussive, and I didn't blatantly use flattering adjectives to describe my products. thumb.gif

And, hopefully, I'll actually have something real to show for it soon. (soo far behind schedule at this point that it couldn't possibly be a joke.)
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