Project Information:

Project Title:

Universal Nerf-Gun Design

Project Abstract:

Commercially sold toy foam-dart guns or, Nerf-Guns are designed specifically by individual companies to work with their own products. Nerf-guns sold by Hasbro will only take Hasbro sold darts, while BuzzE’Bee designed products only BuzzE’Bee Darts and so on. Even depending on design, different models from the same manufacturer can require different darts as well. These factors combine to create a logistical nightmare when organizing Nerf-Tournaments and games, as individuals all bring equipment that is incompatible with each other. This project aims to solve these problems by designing, testing and building a ‘Universal Nerf-Gun’ capable of using a wide variety of darts, without sacrificing performance or cost properties.  It must be clip-fed, in order to maximize usability and convenience in play and also be able to sustain or surpass the typical range of a store-bought model of the same design.