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A project log for Sonic Screwdriver Remote Upgrade Project (SRUP)

My attempt to upgrade/customize my Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver universal remote control.

darcueidDarcueid 11/14/2014 at 17:230 Comments

So progress is going slower now, mainly because of shiny distractions like: the Skyforge MMORPG - Technical Beta that I got into, and probably the upcoming Dragon Age: Inquisition video game. Worst yet, progress may go even more slowly if I decided to do a couple more projects that have popped into my mind recently.

Even so, I'm still happy to post the tiny bit of work that I got done this week. The only problem is that I'm going to have to redo the threading on the parts, because they do not conform to ISO metric screw thread standards. The Unified Thread Standards didn't dawn on to me until after I had done most of the screw threads for v0.5 of the Sonic; silly me.

I'm also having trouble trying to figure out how to best connect the ivory-like handle part with the leather-like grip part of the Sonic Screwdriver. My current design for the connection seems really weak, so I'm thinking of ways to improve that. I still think that getting a looking at the innards of my Sonic Screwdriver Remote will be able to provide some ideas, but I still can't get the bloody copper end apart from the while handle.

Anyway, here is a small comparison of v0.4 to v0.5 so far.

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