As someone who grew up with more than a few Nerf guns in my life, I’ve always enjoyed the line of foam projectile weapons. These days, I have a Nerf cannon that fires tennis balls for my dogs to chase.
However, the peak of this concept is a Nerf turret, which you can build yourself. It all starts with this PCB shield. You can purchase it as a kit or fully assembled. The option to include or exclude the programmed controller is there as well.
To make things even easier, you can find the files for the turret itself on Thingverse, ready for download. While the finished design doesn’t shoot darts, it does fire Nerf discs (which are available on Aliexpress) using 2 hobby motors at 12V and a 9g hobby RC servo to push the discs into the motors.
Now, if someone could come up with a design like this that shoots tennis balls for my dogs, that would be awesome.
