{"id":11900,"date":"2017-07-04T16:46:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T16:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=11900"},"modified":"2017-07-04T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T16:46:30","slug":"mpew-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=11900","title":{"rendered":"MPew 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IF_fP9YDaPI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nI finally got around to modifying my TakaraTomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-36 Megatron. He has a cannon that has a button that makes sounds. I wanted the trigger to make the sounds, too!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mp36p1.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe finished product on one side. The other side has no wire, obviously. I picked this side so that my right hand would partially hide the wire when holding it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mp36p2.jpg\"><br \/>\nWhat you need: A switch, a soldering iron and soldering paste, a screwdriver, and a lot of force to open the cannon. I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to open it cleanly.<\/p>\n<p>The cannon&#8217;s switch is peeking out, with two legs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mp36p3.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe other two legs on the cannon&#8217;s switch, when shorted, trigger the sound. So I could just add another switch on this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mp36p4.jpg\"><br \/>\nThis is how the switch goes back in, with my new switch&#8217;s wires coming out from the slot in the front. It looks like it was meant to be easy to modify, if you could figure out how to open it properly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mp36p5.jpg\"><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t manage to figure out how to open it, so I melted off the parts highlighted in red so it could go back in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to modifying my TakaraTomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-36 Megatron. He has a cannon that has a button that makes sounds. I wanted the trigger to make the sounds, too! The finished product on one side. The other side has no wire, obviously. I picked this side so that my right hand would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11901,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900\/revisions\/11901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}