MORLOCK mk4
By Curt
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A custom project board specially designed to run paintball
markers, but capable of far more.
Mark IV Now Available!
Bluetooth configurable with Android
App now available in Downloads
Features
As paintball marker driver the MK4 has nearly unlimited
flexibility:
- Can be configured remotely with an Android phone over bluetooth
- Runs on a single LiPo cell (includes on-board charging, and
power-converters direct from Tashi Station)
- Built-in voltage booster, drives whatever your gun needs: 4v - 20v
- Supports Single or Double solenoid markers
- Fully customizable timing, configure with bluetooth or over
website (wifi)
- Open-source. All the code and designs are public
- Supports any kind of eye, reflective or break-beam
- 128x32 Display board fully integrated
- Thin profile ideal for tight grips
As a generic project board, the MK4 has features any hobbyist can
appreciate:
- Arduino compatible, can be programmed as an ESP32-C6 module
- Automatically manages LiPo charging
- Power can be input via USB, on-board LiPo or external supply, all
diode protected and isolated, yes you can hook up all three at the
same time.
- Voltage Booster is controlled via on-board PCM, completely
customizable.
- Two high-current FET switches
Products
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MK4 Full Package [Standard]
Everything you need for a complete custom install: Morlock mk4,
wiring harness, OLED screen and LiPo power cell! Playing with the
settings while someone else fires the the marker come free.
$119.99
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MK4 Full Package [Piggyback]
Same as the standard, but the OLED comes attached in a single compact
package
$119.99
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MK4 Everything But The Battery
[Standard]
BYOB, but everything else: Morlock board,
wiring harness, and OLED screen! 9v were all the rage once, but you
can go with three AA or AAA's if you want.
$99.99
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MK4 Everything But The Battery
[Piggyback]
BYOB, but everything else: Morlock board,
wiring harness, and OLED screen! 9v were all the rage once, but you
can go with three AA or AAA's if you want.
$99.99
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Morlock mk4
Assembled Morlock board including the 2mm 12 pin
header and a 4-pin 90 degree header for the optional OLED board
$79.99
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Wiring Harness
Complete set of wires and wire-header for interfacing with any
paintball marker
$25.99
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OLED Display
Compact OLED board the morlock board can drive directly. These are
also fully supported by Arduino libraries. This will include the
4-conductor jumper required to hook it up.
$11.99
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LIPO Cell
perfect for running your paintball gun all day, this ~1100mAh cell fits
inside just about any grip, has easily twice the life of an alkaline 9v battery, and can be recharged by
plugging the Morlock into any standard 5v USB port.
Note: a $10 shipping charge will be added when this is selected
to cover the special UPS hazardous shipping.
$15.99
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I create these designs and software at my own expense and sell for near cost. This is not a business for me in any
"keep the lights on" sense. Any extra dosh you'd care to stuff in the
tip jar goes a long way to the next software release or gadget :)
Docs
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History
Kennesaw Mountain Markers (KM2) was founded in 1998 by me, Curt
Hartung, along with a few other partners, most notably Linda Stephens,
assembly-tech extrordinaire.
At that time electronic markers were very new and their
capabilities largely unexplored
We pioneered the concept of custom after-market electronics in
paintball markers,
starting with the Gabriel chip, granting "Turbo" mode to the original
Angel. I then went on to invent many features now taken for granted in modern electronic
markers:
- Anti-Chop eyes (yes we invented them)
- Enhanced Fire modes
- Turbo - The Saga
- Autoresponse - from the AutoMag frame of the same name
- Sniper - cool mode for dual-solenoid markers I first
implemented on a shoebox shocker
- Trigger Programming
The product line went on to support many other custom electronic
markers and eventually saw the need for a single generic board to run
them all.
The original Morlock boards, From left to right, first second and
third versions.
Invented?
Yup! Early 1999 with the huge success of the Gabriel chip, it
occured to me that running the marker with a microcontroller meant it
could also make sure it never chopped by putting a detector in the
breech. It was a natural progression and several shops came up with
the idea independantly, I was just first to produce one.
Force-feed loaders were not practical yet and in fact were
strictly forbidden, so the fastest hoppers at the time could feed
around 11bps, slower than the new trigger-modes could fire, resulting
in many chops.
After a brief prayer and few shots of JD, I took a drill
press to my $1000 marker and drilled the very first break-beam eye hole.
In the wrong place.
Originally I thought it best to put the sensor in the middle of the
breech, not the bottom. That way the ball could be detected
falling and the bolt fired at the very instant it would be
seated.
Turns out solenoids are so fast this timing advance was not
necessary, and was actually a hinderance. So I drilled a second hole
right at the bottom, only a hair's breadth from an internal air
passage I didn't know was there because damnit, Jim, I'm and engineer not
an airsmith.
That first historic Angel, the first ever
electronic paintball marker to have an eye, is now proudly owned by
Simon "Manike"
Stephens. My understanding is he sometimes shows it off, ask him
about it.
About Me
I've been a tinkerer my whole life. Computers, Go-Karts, R/C racing,
Flying, if it has moving parts (real or virtual) I'm interested.
Friends introduced me to paintball around 1998 and I was never
really bitten by the 'play' bug, but have always been obsessed with
the 'gear' bug.
I can be contacted at
curt.hartung@gmail.com
A nerd in his natural habitat, a basement workshop.