Blaster How-To

astromech · April 1, 2023, 1:54pm

I wonder if you could do a sort of shake muzzle downwards to go down in the menu and shake muzzle upwards to go up.

LyleStyle · April 1, 2023, 4:19pm

Wait, what about spin muzzle up vs spin muzzle down. Like an old gunslinger. Flip!

astromech · April 1, 2023, 4:54pm

Not sure you could do that on a DC-15A!

profezzorn · April 1, 2023, 6:26pm

How about turning the grip up to access menues and other controls?
(and pressing the fire button)

baldusi · April 2, 2023, 12:10am

I think whoever is doing an extended blaster prop, can do that. blaster.h should probably do no menus at all (but should probably save the current prop).

profezzorn · April 2, 2023, 12:38am

You’re right, no menues in blaster.h.
But maybe it could be used to change preset in a single-button blaster prop.

LyleStyle · April 2, 2023, 2:18am

Ha, no. No you could not.

I’ve got Mando brain when thinking about blasters right now.

LadyTea · April 3, 2023, 6:21pm

profezzorn:

The code looks like this:
virtual bool CheckJam(int percent) {
    int random = rand() % 100;
    return random < percent;
}
That means that a value of 0 is valid, and means zero percent chance of jamming.

I thought the way iits coded it means Its 0-99… I double checked with a number of examples. also I been working like crazy and being having fun like crazy too. So I might be exhausted

well at least it cant be greater than 0… yep. I am mentally exhausted.

MegtoothSith · June 2, 2023, 2:56pm

Im getting ready to build my second proffie blaster, an E11 for my TK outfit! Id like to mount an oled in the counter box. Does oled work at all with blaster prop? Ill build a test rig.

baldusi · June 2, 2023, 5:16pm

Not that I know of. But there’s a thread where someone did make it work. I would love to put it in the prop, though. If you PM me next week we can try.

baldusi · June 2, 2023, 5:28pm

I still have many changes on my local version that I have to push to master, and then we can tackle the OLED issue.

baldusi · June 2, 2023, 5:34pm

Incidentally, Proff said he was going to experiment with color OLEDs on V3. So I’’m low key preparing a V3 test stand. I’ve procured some nice things:

This was done to make a tricorder prop, but I guess blaster.h could very well use it.

profezzorn · June 2, 2023, 9:32pm

Yes, it works with the blaster prop.
Getting bullet counts to work is a little awkward, but it is possible, let me know if you need help.

baldusi · June 2, 2023, 11:39pm

I would like to know how, too. So I can implement it in the How-To and the prop.

profezzorn · June 3, 2023, 3:55am

ProffieOS v6.x ALPHA testing ProffieOS

Ok, it’s now possible to show bullet counts on an OLED display. Here’s what you would need: This includes the display code, but doesn’t activate it. May become the default in the future. #define INCLUDE_SSD1306 Here’s how we activate the display: #ifdef CONFIG_BOTTOM DisplayHelper<128, uint32_t, BaseLayerOp<StandardDisplayController>, ClearRectangleOp<10, 80, 8, 24>, WriteBulletCountOp<10, 20, 5> > display_controller; SSD1306Template<128, uint32_t> display(&display_controller); #endif The DisplayHelper class takes a list of display operations, which works a lot like the Layers<> style. Currently, these operations are available: Two different base layers: BaseLayerOp<StandardDisplayController> ClearScreenOp The first one makes it work like a standard display controller (shows, font.bmp, messages, etc., the second one just makes it black. ClearRectangleOp<x1, x2, y1, y2> This op clears a rectangle on the screen. WriteBulletCountOp<x, y, digits> Writes the current bullet count at the specified location. IfImageOp<OP> This executes OP if the base layer is showing an image, but not otherwise. The idea is that you could have a bullet count that draws over images, but not messages and battery monitors. We will probably need more display OPs real soon for other purposes… In 7.x I plan to make it possible to specify a different display controller for each preset, essentially making it a “style” for the display.

MegtoothSith · June 3, 2023, 3:56pm

I don’t know if I’ll build my test rig this weekend, but I am going to mock up my tri cree, strips, OLED, Speaker and buttons to see how all this is currently working. It would be cool to have the bullet counts on my counter on the E11, but I still think it’d be supercool to have the Emperial Cog battery meter on there as well. I know I can make it do that. I use the pic that is already in the files for the battery meter. I’m excited for this project. I built the first Proffie Blaster in February 2020 with Dayodadjocen, who is really busy working to make those MOM Sabers with 7Chambers. But I’d love to help expand proffie’s capabilities on blaster. The one I built was really cool, and makes other Boba Fetts in the 501st Legion jealous!!!