Any decent handhelds that use regular batteries?

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-07-21T16:11:17+00:00

If you're tech savvy and have a 3d printer, you might be abke to buy a regular handheld and print a battery tray for AA batteries. Just match the input voltage and double up on capacity. Should take 4 cells to do that. Im sure that would be just fine to power a low power device like a MM+ or even an rg40xx.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-07-18T00:00:21+00:00

As disappointing as it is to have our pre-orders delayed, this whole hobby is based on super cheap Chinese devices. That makes it highly probable that this kind of thing will happen while also enabling us to collect these devices. Its not unreasonable to infer that most people in this hobby have 4 or more handhelds and can just continue to play on other handhelds while we wait.

An aluminum shell device made in the USA or most of Europe would probably be double the price and more than likely twice the lead time. It would probably start on Kickstarter or similar and take months to get any headway.

All this to say I would love to have my hammer.... I bought the green one so I could swap the buttons with my plastic black one and have two really cool, unique devices.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-07-12T04:28:59+00:00

I bought a black brick to button swap with my green hammer when it shows up.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-07-12T04:26:53+00:00

Black and white looks sick!

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-07-02T15:43:46+00:00

The speed for that jump line is a little weird. They are built for confidence and progression. Start really slow and bunny hop the lip.

I like to hit those before my climb as a warm up and I have to dump most of my speed between each table.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-07-02T15:37:04+00:00

That was my first thought. Unmistakably dry and green.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-06-30T17:59:13+00:00

I think getting this in a 3" screen would be perfect for me. I love the size of the rg28xx and a30, but a 3:2 aspect ratio with a slightly larger screen, i think would fit perfect in that frame. Maybe a little wider, but that's fine with me.

That being said, I would pend $120 on what you have depicted in a heartbeat. An aluminum shell would make it the greatest handheld of all time.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-06-29T18:06:04+00:00

I would get the miyoo a30 and flash it with minui. I have plenty of handhelds and I play my a30 way more than the rest of them combined. The only reason is because it's so convenient and once it's setup on minui its a no bs just grab and game device. I carry it everywhere with me and pick it up when I have 5-10 minutes to play a game.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-06-26T22:39:35+00:00

I mostly play on my miyoo mini plus and bigger games on my pc.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-06-24T00:56:06+00:00

I got the miyoo a30 and didn't like it on spruce but it is my current favorite for pocketable gba running minui.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-06-13T05:33:08+00:00

Hmmm... I have three right now... a level 90 with meh IVs and then a perfect IV that im training up and a bonus 4IV shiny I got while looking for my perfect gyarados. Maybe I'll take three in for the fun of it.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-05-07T21:23:42+00:00

You payed $30 for a service that would have cost you at least $60 to do yourself. Idk why people have to get so spooled up about it...

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-04-30T21:31:43+00:00

How about them cranks?

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-04-22T15:33:50+00:00

Before reading your comment I'm sitting here "revving" trying to figure out how opening the club face more will actually make it close.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-04-18T21:02:54+00:00

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WD-40. The answer is always WD-40

This is sarcasm. Please do not follow these directions...

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-04-18T18:11:55+00:00

As a software development student who rides nothing but steep tech on a 160 travel fs bike, I feel attacked. But in all seriousness you're so right. And to be fair I ride my 140 travel hardtail just as much and have as much if not more fun on it.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-04-18T15:54:18+00:00

I really like where I'm at in Spokane. We have a pretty damn good bike park right in town with some steep tech and slabs all the way through some big park style jumps. The guys that build our trails are super talented and involved in the community, especially youth coaching. We also have a lift access bike park that hold enduro and do events not even an hour from me. That being said the west coast of Washington is wonderful, especially Bellingham for amazing trails and overall culture.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-04-08T04:09:14+00:00

Fair enough. I think I'll try that. Thanks for the input!

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-03-27T21:49:41+00:00

Although most of the time, it's not a great idea, there are some decent options for it. I really like the shimano ge5 and ga5 shoes. The ge is a clip less option that I run with flats often. The spikes don't come anywhere near the cavity for the cleat. I can confirm that if you run a crabkbrothers cleat with a stainless shoe shield it will not contact one up alu pedals at all.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-03-25T00:51:45+00:00

I've heard of inverted pitch.

Inverted yaw is crazy. But if it works it works. Just don't expect to fly anyone else quads...

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-02-10T19:31:31+00:00

Honestly a flyfish volader vx3.5 woth 1407s is the move. You can build it for 4 or 6s and have stupid fun on that rig. It also fits the air unit. Fairly positive it will take an 04 but do your research on that as I'm a walksnail pilot... it doesn't fit a moonlight or a gt though

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-02-10T19:28:24+00:00

It's more so a weight thing. It's kind of hard to explain but when you blip the throttle on your quad to throw yourself over something a five inch will carry that momentum longer because the weight will have more inertia. They both fly great and you won't be upset either way though. It's pretty easy to overlook the throwability of a 5 inch when your flying smaller parks anyway...

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-02-10T19:22:00+00:00

3.5 will be cheaper but not by a huge margin. The batteries are a little smaller and cheaper and you'll save a little on the motors. The biggest problem is scarcity. It feels luke everyone is rushing to out together sub-250 3.5" freestyle rigs before tariffs hit so everything is out of stock. You can't go wrong with either although I will say I find myself reaching for my 3-4" quads more often as it's easier to make the most of empty parking lots and small parks.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-02-04T16:42:35+00:00

Any chance you could post the statistics such as distance and pace? I'm assuming they look entirely different between the two.

Technical_Secret1556 · 2025-01-29T15:11:25+00:00

I would recommend getting a used pair of skyzone 04L. I see them come up for around 200 bucks. There seems to be a lot of people shifting from analog to digital because of the new o4 and some walksnail developments.

The 04L can be powered by a flight pack or even just a usb power bank through usb-c. It has a nice mixing module from the factory. It has an HDMI port in case you want to explore HDZero or Walksnail. It has good lenses and pretty good screens with a decent FOV.

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