Modification - DX Diendriver : Card Scanning Function and Additional Sounds

A long overdue modification... Bought the DX Diendriver after watching a youtube clip that does this modification, hoping to do one myself. At that time, the DX Decadriver was selling very cheaply (about $20 or so)... But did not have the momentum to do so, and until 3 or 4 days ago... Not a very difficult mod to do, but still requires a lot of fiddling especially since I remove the black plastic piece with slit from the sensors' board... (you will know what I mean if you are doing it...)

The 'gas-tanks' need to be opened before opening the main gun body..


Initially I wanted to use this position to place the sensor, but decided not to in the end, as I am afraid the transparent but 'blurrish' card-holder's window may obstruct the bar-code reading...


The sensor board...Why did I put this picture here??? hmmm...


The actual sensors will be placed over the hole that I cut off from the card-holder base piece. There is a small piece of black plastic with a transparent slit in the middle, and this piece is to be covered over the actual sensors so that the sensors can sense through the slit more accurately. A lot of time is pent fiddling on the positioning of the slit properly...


Need to trim off to create some spaces to fit in the sensor board...


Sensor placed over the gap... and hot glued to secure...


As I was lazy, I used a switch that was in the DX Diendriver for activating the sensor to start the scanning function (circled in dotted red on the right of the picture)... and also have to fill in the space in the ridge (left of picture) as the switch needs to be still pressed when the card holder is slided away later.


Stupidly cut off too much and have to remake the slope for removing the card out...


Placed the main sensing circuit board here... hot-glue to secure too... The other half of the gun body has to trim off some ribs in the inside of the body as they will obstruct the circuit boards. That piece also has a weird part where it houses a small rectangular piece...for no apparent purpose...


Added a small switch (with 1 end to the N.C. connection) to activate the sounds output when the card-holder part is pulled away...


Also added a gashapon Diend Gaia/Sound Memory's circuit chip to have the henshin sounds... Sadly I try to fiddle to allow to select the use of DX Diendriver's original henshin sound, so that the henshin sounds will be more show accurate, but failed... so have to stick to the sounds the card-scanner make, plus the gaia memory's sounds...


Added a switch here to activate the gaia memory circuit sounds... A better place to put the switch could have been the place where the thumb is when holding the handle of the gun... but too late, already cut the hole...



And here's the outcome: