I see a lot of sound and light rigs going on but not too many (I personally haven’t seen any) people incorporating some vibration into their packs. I’m was thinking, when using a light kit that strobes your thrower, that a small motor or some sort (like something in an xbox controller) would give the wand that extra ‘edge’ if it vibrated when being ‘fired’. Same idea for when the pack is turned on. A big vibration initially, then a constant humming vibration while the pack is running. Has anyone pulled this off successfully? Thanks.
Or you could get the same effect by fake-shaking your hands…This could easily go very wrong very quickly. Nobody would be able to see the vibrations anyway, I mean, in the movie they even fake-shook their hands to make the effect that they were struggling - and even moreso that was only with the Gozer battle when they were crossing the streams.
besides, “vibrating wands” are just the nicer way of saying ■■■■■.
Sexual innuendos aside, I’ve looked into doing this in my own pack. I think it would be a neat feature for you (the person wearing it) to have. My problem is that I can’t find a reliable source of vibration motors.
If anyone around here knows of any, please post them up as this is something I’d like to look into.
I’d think two larger vibration motors in the pack and a smaller one inside the wand would provide a pretty sweet effect when first switching on the pack or firing.
I had a bit of an issue with one of my Xbox 360 controllers and let’s just say it didn’t survive the screwdriver-impalement method of troubleshooting. Thanks to that I have a pair of vibration motors that work perfectly off a 9V power supply. I was thinking of mounting them inside the gunbox and having them run parallel to the INTENSIFY button’s sound line.
Right on. That’s exactly what I was getting at. I don’t know much about electronics, but I’d bet you could splice it into the trigger when firing, or intensify as you mentioned, to give it that extra umpf.
I thought the vibrations thing would be cool for those wearing it. One of those things that you get to enjoy for building it, and the ‘lookers’ get to be jealous of Like the difference between driving the car or just seeing it driven.
ive been wanting vibration in my thrower for years, and the packs im making now WILL HAVE IT. while shaking the thrower profusely is fun to show off, but, i want to feel it simulate the shaking for myself.
*ive put everyone that comes into the chatroom that says “im bored” to work looking for cheap vibrating mechanisms to circuit bend for this detail. * (unfortunately it comes back to vibrators)
so far, the best thing minnesotaghost found are these vibrating pens :
with my last two packs, I had exoray light kits which had a vibration module add-on.
it’s fun for a while, but you know what takes the fun out of it REAL fast? having a very old, ugly, fat, drunk woman try to stick it between her legs while staring at you with ■■■■ eyes on Halloween.
I removed that module the next day.
True story.
Now I need to go back to therapy. If you all would kindly excuse me…
in my defense, I was distracted by laughter seeing my friend dressed as the original Green Ranger getting hit on by a drunk gay guy… THAT was funny. me and my other friends had taken off our packs and set them in the corner so we could sit and have a few drinks. When I look back at the gear, there’s Ms Awful trying to do stuff with it… -shudder-
Anyway, yeah, the thrower was cleaned pretty damn well… stripped the paint off and everything. The whole pack was pretty much redone over the next couple of weeks. It survived a full night in New York City on Halloween, but got beat to hell in a taxi on the way home >_<
Like the difference between driving the car or just seeing it driven.