About: I make stuff, or at least I try. When I'm am not making things, I enjoy learning what I can in the areas of history, religion, electronics, and 3D printing.

Hi All.

I've wanted to draw-up a printable Nerf-compatible blaster for a long time. When I finally made some time to work on the idea, I decided to start as small and simple as possible with a single dart blaster. In the pictures above you can see the size comparison of the blaster to my hand and a Pez dispenser.

As you can probably tell, I modeled this blaster after the Nerf Jolt. The simple, single action, spring-powered piston mechanism functions pretty much the same way it does in the Jolt. I did not go as far as to include an entire air-regulator assembly that most Nerf guns feature at the end of the barrel or to include the dart guide on the inside of the barrel, but I think the blaster's performance is at least comparable to Blasters in the Nerf Micro-shots series.

Because I wanted this blaster to be as printable as possible, I avoided using any screw connections to construct the assemblies. Instead, the blaster is put together using printable pins. The only non-printable parts of the blaster are the springs for the piston and trigger, and the piston o-ring.