When I first started in on making GI Joe Adventure Team gear sets, I began with a project that seemed fitting for the time. An Adventure Team Cyber Counter-Attack set. This would be a set of gear designed to counter a Cyber attack by a terrorist operation.
The concept is very old:
I’d say I sketched this up in 2013, not long after I got my first 3D printer. Or maybe even before.
Anyway, since then, this set has kind of sat dormant in my mind, but at the time, I actually had begun working on it.
As you can see from the concept, the Cyber EMP Grenade/Mine is intended to emit a blast of electromagnetic energy powerful enough to shut down any electronics in a region – the aim, to counter any Cyber Attack.
I did work on this EMP Grenade long ago. The design uses 3 magnets. One sits in the main body of the mine/grenade. Another sits on the end of a plunger, with a repulsing effect, so it acts like a spring. This allows you to push the plunger down as if there is a spring inside. This section acts like a grenade, and can be tossed.
Then the EMP Grenade can sit inside a cradle with another magnet inside that acts in two ways: It attracts the EMP Grenade to keep it in place in the cradle, and also the base magnet works to attach the mine to any metal surface for detonation later.
In 2023 Greg and I made a new set called Spy Island – Aerial Assault Superset, which included a Helijet in red/black, an Aerial Drone (with attachment), a drop canister, 3 EMP Grenade/Mines, and a wrist controller. The rest of the set is themed in black/red and together it made one gorgeous set!
The next item in the original (old) concept is an EMP Cannon. I did begin fleshing out some basic shapes in 3D but left it alone for many years.
This year, my brain got obsessed with it again, and I worked on a prototype of the EMP Cannon that I could use to help flesh out this original set, long abandoned.
So to cut a long story into a short clip, I did it:
These are not final pics. Though the only difference between this and the “final” so far, is that I actually cut the hexagonal light blue emitter into a backing, and a hex grid, so the grid itself is actually black.
Also, I intend to use an internal light (a finger light) to make it light up.
More on that as it develops.
The astute will note that to complete this set, I still have to make a pair of VR Goggles, and a control tablet. Though the control tablet is actually made, just not quite to the design in this concept:
