************************************** * * * Remote Control Detonators * * Written and Uploaded by * * Night Crawler * * * ************************************** How many times have you wanted to seriously scare someone or better yet, throw flaming projectiles at their house, but didnt want to get caught? Well, Now you can! By modifying certain remote control toys you too can hide up in a tree and blow up things by just pressing a button. Using this system, I've modified a very expensive tank without ruin- ing it, or taking away any of its controls. To start: You will need: A remote control toy (one with a headlights or cannon button will work nicely) 30-70 feet of wire (2 leads!) phono plug & jack a few scraps of small wire a multimeter (meter designed for testing voltages and resistance) a solar ignitor a model rocket or m-80 Begin by getting into the toy. I will use for an example the tank I've modified. There were four screws on the bottom that held the turret and cover on. I removed these and the cover easily came off. There may be a screw under a sticker if yours has a warrantee on it. When this is done you'll probab- ly see a lot of mumbo jumbo. You have to examine the toy to find where the wires connecting to the headlights or searchlight or fake cannon is. The toys with the lightbulbs are the easiest to modify (a car is SIMPLE). Now turn on the toy and press the headlight button or whatever control you've found to make sure it works. With my tank, it has a searchlight on top, and when you press "cannon" on the remote control, the light goes on, very handy... Now test the voltage. It should be at least about 2 1/2 - 3v. If it isn't there may not be enough voltage, but it still may work depending on what solar ignitors you have. My tank had 6 volts. You must also be sure that your device uses a few batteries. It takes a little Amperage to set off those babies, and one or two small batteries just won't do. Now find a place on the toy where there is room for a phono jack to fit in with a little room. The Driver's compartment on cars is good, on my tank there is a turret with a lot of room inside. Now drill a hole in that spot big enough for the phono jack to fit. After thats done, test fit it. Then solder two wires one to the prong, and one to the center protrusion of the phono jack. You'll understand once you see the phono jack. The wires must be long enough to reach the point where you tested (the headlights, search light, etc.). Finally screw the plug in. There should be two wires coming from the light. No need to disconnect these, but also solder the two wires from the phono jack onto the connection. phono jack wires x x | x x V xxx /| | | /-------< | | \_________/ ________\| \____________/ light That should clarify a little. Before soldering the second wire to the light, check the phono jack for a short circuit. A short circuit would ruin the whole thing. To do this change the multimeter to Ohms and place one of the leads on the second unsoldered wire and the other to the first wire. The Ohms should read 1 or No Connection. If there is a con- nection, then check the phono jack for a short. The circuit should not complete through the jack (yet). After this then solder the second wire to the light. Now put the toy together again. Part 1 is completed. Strip both ends of the 30 foot wire (each lead). Connect the two leads at one end of the wire to the phono plug. Follow up by screwing the cap onto the plug. The other end just leave plain (make sure the leads aren't touching). You are done!!! You should have a car or tank with a jack sticking out of it and a 30 foot line with a phono plug at the end. To Fire == ==== Connect the solar ignitor to the ends of the plain 30 foot wire, and tape it into the rocket or onto the m-80. You must be careful here. In some toys a glitch may cause the solar ignitor to go off. Put the explosive where you want it then stretch the wire to where the car or tank is. Turn the toy on then plug the wire into it. Go climb up a tree and turn the remote control on. Press Headlights or Cannon and the car will look like it went dead (neat effects eh?). Then the rocket, m-80, or whatever will explode. Then you can drive away with the wires! Nobody will have seen you light it up, and you can just stay there and watch all the people run around looking for somebody to blame! MWAHAHA! Nightcrawler Coming Soon: Tank controlled missle launchers (Actually drive around and shoot that baby into their picture window!)