Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Gattai !!!! Customized Gashapon-"DX" Gashat Gear Dual Gashat

Was quite confident that the Gashapon version of the Gashat Gear Dual gashats can be combined to near-DX, so went ahead with this operation... First up, the circuit... I also had to swap the circuit boards in the 2 casings as I had used a drink cap for the turning mechanism (tighten is clockwise)... This circuit will also allow either of the 2 black buttons to be depressed for activation...


A small microswitch is used for the selection of Perfect Puzzle or Knockout Fighter mode...


The turning knob mechanism... The knob is from a fruit juice tetra-pack (?) and pusher (green-tube-like-thing) from an old light-up sword...


Hot-glue is used to join the parts...


Added a thin ABS plate to allow the pusher to better press the microswitch...


And the knob mechanism is basically done! The green tube will move linearly in when the knob (cap) is rotated clockwise, which will then press the microswitch to activate it...


Holes are cut at the black coloured plates for the lighting effect...


And circuit path is broken in preparation for the new switches to be soldered onto according to the drawn out circuit... Need to scrape off the green top layer of the circuit path to expose the copper for soldering... Repeat for the other circuit board...


Soldered!!!!


Similar to the Mighty Brothers XX gashats modification, holes have to be drilled for the wires to pas through from one gashat to the other...


Next, made a simple frame to hold the graphics stickers, using slightly thicker (approximately 1 or 1.2mm) ABS... Super glue is used to join them... and personally felt super glue is quite suitable for ABS joints as they stick quite securely!...


The graphic stickers are pasted onto thin ABS sheets and cut to size... This is because my litle nephew wanted the human figure to be "standing" when the gashat(s) is inserted into the DX Gamer Driver, and I am afraid he might change his mind, so I decided to paste the stickers onto ABS sheet instead of directly onto the frame using small pieces of double-sided tape on the 2 ends of each ABS sheet, which will allow them to be removed without much difficulty nor damage to the stickers...


The white LEDs are glued to the appropriate locations... oh, forget to mention that the battery holder was also modded to hold 3 button cell batteries (2xAG10, 1 x AG13)...


Frame is then painted with black paint pen and 2 silver chrome stickers are placed at the bottom to better reflect the white LED light to shine on the stickers...


As the gashapon Perfect Puzzle sticker is in a wrong orientation, I had to print out and make 1 myself... Part of the sticker is cut to paste onto the battery lid while the rest pasted on the gashat itself... This also sort of matches with the "puzzle" theme...


Looking good!!!


And after pasting the knob stickers...


.. and the Knockout Fighter sticker, the "DX" Gahsat Gear Dual is done!!!!! Very happy...






2 comments:

  1. I'm looking for some resources on how to connect a gashat to my computer to add/change the sound effects. I want to make a custom gashat but have almost no experience, do you have any recommendations or advice?

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    1. (I think) Gashats, or almost any mass manufactured electronics toys,their circuit boards are fixed. If you have bother to open up such before you will have find that the main chip is often sealed (the big black lump) or somehow not visible, even if not, you will probably not see ports for external connection to. Anyone who thinks logically will also realise why will these companies (Bandai, etc) want to leave a backdoor for people to temper with their IP stuff?
      Recommendation: Can get some (very small) sound recording circuits (check out your local electronics stores, or worst case scenario, maybe eBay) to record your desired sounds and put into the gashat, I am using this method for my "customizing and modding", though i get my sound recording boards from Taobao.com, which usually has no model numbers or brands.
      Advice: I will be frank. It is not easy to custom or fiddle with gashats or such toys. You will need basic to intermediate electronics knowledge to even know how to start to custom etc, not to mention the basic tools eg. soldering iron, solder, etc etc.. so do read up / learn up b4 you try to attempt, probably will be less painful. To me experience can be build up ,so don't give up. All the best!

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