Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-39396520-20190508033919/@comment-26431461-20190511162619

Elliottw wrote: Monkeyman0490 wrote: And what about the terradrone, nobody talks about the smallest full auto blaster The TerraDrone is too slow and too fragile to be practical in a Nerf battle. They are loads of fun to play with, but not really an effective Nerf weapon. They are also very expensive, and most owners don't want them to be stepped on, which is a real possibility when multiple nerfers are running around, not paying attention to TerraDrones. I agree. I opened mine up and was not impressed by the internals.

The flywheels are powered by only one motor.

That motor is the same one that moves the pusher. And the same one that adjusts the elevation of the head. It uses some sort of gearbox mechanism which, when the motor rotates one way, it will continuously move the head up and down. When rotated the other way, it moves the flywheels and eventually the pusher/cylinder indexer.

This is why it takes longer to rev the flywheels or elevate the head, since the motor needs time to switch gears, if my understanding isn't wrong.

It also explains why you need to wait for the head to tilt all the way up, and then go down and vice versa.

Making it wrist-mounted would be cool, but you could also use a wrist-mounted chopped RapidStrike, for a much cheaper, effective, and mag-fed option. The mechanism of the Terradrone makes its rate of fire a total bore.