The Dart Zone

Edit: Some remarks about the foam on this dart turned out to be incorrect on further experimentation. Zuru's modern era offering of a so...

I have been meaning to give this particular tip a try as a long dart for flywheel use for a while now, and I also wanted to check out its ...

I wanted another sight so I don't have to move mine around between blasters. I have also been using low cost Chinese clone 552s as my go...

This is going to be a long one, but it ultimately makes sense to put all this data in one post, and it will be seen why. As such, I will kee...

OK, I’ll admit it: this title is a bit dramatic. Reddit isn’t dead. There’s a significant distance left in the enshittification pipeline be...

This dart has been known variously around the NIC as "chili" or "green[/red] diamond". It is the second on the market of...

Problems with the glue used to mount tips to foam on cheap bulk darts such as waffle, accutip/whirlwind, etc. are familiar in the hobby, as ...

Just a bit of what has been going on lately. First of all, the implementation of that fast decay solenoid drive topology in my usual style o...

This is the "partial fullbridge" topology (2 mosfets and 2 diodes) from the previous post roughly prototyped.   And the overall se...

 ...Specifically, in the context of bolt actuators. In the nerf hobby up to this point, we have generally had exactly one answer to this que...