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With several projects in various stages of development it's long since been time to do an overview of where several of them are at the moment and get the hype train up to 88mph. BPX: Bullpup Tipx   Perhaps the project that's been in development the longest and the one quite a bit of folks are waiting to see. For those not familiar, this project utilizes the engine and much of the hardware of the Tippmann Tipx and places it into a modular bullpup form factor. Once fully realized users will be able to change grips, front ends, risers, magwells,...

Design Progress The design of the base platform is complete. We've finally arrived at a design that incorporates all of the future tech we're going to continue developing including an electronic trigger package, upgraded internals and ammo counter. As stated from the beginning the goal is to create an ecosystem and a large part of that was ensuring that the base marker platform could accommodate the ideas of the future. That White Marker Tho... It's apparent that folks got drawin into the high contrast of the white variant that has been shown off recently. The purpose of printing in this...

CURRENT PROGRESS Now comes the fun part. Now that the first proof of concept is working and has proven itself I'll be working on future-proofing the design and ensuring it passes the 'rule of cool'. Future-proofing the design involves incorporating a few neat future enhancements into the design prior to finalizing any production version of this bullpup. At the moment the base marker has incorporated lessons learned from the Ammo Counter side quest I went on earlier in the year. There's going to be a writeup on that at a later date. Other things I'd like to work on incorporating...

CURRET PROGRESS Current in-house Halo:CE inspired configuration.     Following a successful test firing using Tipx internals and Milsig GMAGs, the next step was obviously moving onto the BETA phase. During a supply run for creating the first 'copy' of the Alpha model I couldn't help but take a stroll down the Arduino aisle at the local nerd depot. Curiosity got the best of me and something caught my eye that couldn't be ignored. The smallest OLED screen I've ever seen. The Distraction: An Ammo Counter Upon finding this tiny little screen, and having heard nothing back from the owners...

It's been a full year since I started keeping blogs about this project. In that time a lot has changed with the project so here's a quick recap of the changes that have happened in 2020: Base platform switched from M17 to TIPX Magwell redesigned to enable a more modular platform. Grip Frame/Trigger Guard redesigned to be modular. Front end redesigned for modularity. Open Source collaboration announced via Devgru Facebook Group. Initially when I announced the switch away from the M17 to the TIPX I figured it would be a walk in the park. However getting the marker to a...