I recently finished the raygun, and it works good most of the time but it does have some issues. Sometimes when I power the gun on, the gun either does nothing, the lights turn on with weird colors, and/or the sound playback is at a faster rate. Also other times the gun just freezes at random points when using it (typically when firing, reloading, or starting up) This is my first electronics project so I could have messed up the solder joints but I'm wondering if there is one or two specific components that could cause this issue so I could start there without having to rebuild the whole gun.

mines doing this too, any luck?
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