Mini Thunderbolt Video With Sound............FINALLY!!!!!!

[birdy]

Oh man, that's so cool. Great job!

[Mrs. Thunderbolt]

VERY cool.
~Nikki

[Jim_Ferer]

Brilliant, and sounds completely realistic! Do you have a decibel meter?

[NeoThunderBolt85]

Amazing....I want one. Seriously. It sounds pretty darn loud. Can't hear the blower at all when the head's going. You should build a bunch of these to sell. There's plenty of T-Bolt die-hards like me who would snatch them up fast LOL

[AllSafe]

I have an idea on how to control the chopper speed better. You can build a motor controller based around a PIC microcontroller and control the motor speed using pulse-width modulation.

[Nelso90]

A: It's very loud for its size! I was impressed when I saw it in person.
B: He is definitely not making more of these!

[NeoThunderBolt85]

That sucks. I'd like to have one so bad that it's stupid Anyways, great job Eric! Can't wait to see it all done and painted up.

[CDV777-1]

douro20

I have an idea on how to control the chopper speed better. You can build a motor controller based around a PIC microcontroller and control the motor speed using pulse-width modulation.

I don't have any problem with the chopper speed now.

Nelso90

B: He is definitely not making more of these!

I might eventually if I have some access to some machines where
I can actually work on the thing steadily instead of trying to work
in time on breaks and lunch at work.

soundoff

kx250rider, there's another project of his I remember; a replica Thunderbolt he built for the Regan Library/Museum. I haven't been there myself yet but I know you live near it.

It's not a replica it's an empty Thunderbolt head with all the motors
and rotator drive removed.

Seems like all you'll need to do now is make a better blower cover, paint the blower cover and rotator box yellow, plus add a few decals.

The blower cover and finishing the rotator box is next. I finally got a new
battery for the thing and it runs like it should now.


NeoThunderBolt85

You should build a bunch of these to sell. There's plenty of T-Bolt die-hards like me who would snatch them up fast LOL

It would be prohibitively expensive to do that. It would cost a
small fortune to build a small production run of the things. Then
to resell them I can't imagine how much they would cost a piece.

[kx250rider]

kx250rider, there's another project of his I remember; a replica Thunderbolt he built for the Regan Library/Museum. I haven't been there myself yet but I know you live near it.

That's a great tip! I haven't been there yet either . But we keep talking about it and now I have a burning urge to go check it out... I have no excuse for not going sooner because I'm a BIG Reagan fan and as you pointed out, I can see it from here! I can see in the windows of the big building with Airforce One in it with my telescope

I'll report on it ASAP.

Charles

[MIKEY]

that is the coolest thing i have ever seen. sounds like the real thing too. wish i had the time to create something like that. i would try to build a 2t22. good job