Recent content by Kasaron

Actually it's easy to hack a pedometer, but the issue is making it count down instead of up. Best bet is to go with a regular countdown circuit and use a microcontroller. Mircocontrollers are cheap, easy to use and well documented. Also, arduinios are just a chip on a board with pins. If you...

http://blog.littlebirdelectronics.com/tutorial-arduino-and-tft-lcd http://rossum.posterous.com/three-oleds Some info on LCD screens.

If I'm going to go through with making it with foam, I'll probably use smoothcast and then cast it. Do you know a good casting material. What I'd be looking for, optimally is something with a fairly low price, that's tough enough to withstand the wear and tear of some action scenes(occasionally...

I'm toying with the idea of using a mix of foam work and vacuum forming a set of armor, but am unsure as to how to go about this. The plan at this point is to use rigid foam, make a master then vacuum form over it, but the more I look, the more feasible the method of making a mold and using...

I find the best way to do hard-surface modeling is to use a plane and control the verticies and edges. I'm not entirely sure how symmetry works in blender; so I can't tell you either way on that, but it might be a good idea to model half of the model first then mirror it afterward.

Might be a good idea to make this out of a plastic of some kind if you wanna paintball with it. Ballistic-grade nylon is what i'd suggest, but that's just because I have a tendency to over-build.

I've been keeping my ears to the ground, I might compile a list of tutorials that are usable by the 405th at large. Here's hoping I can find some stuff! Quick notes on things will include Flexible circuit boards EL Wire Making custom, special-use motors (including a design I have for a cheapo...

Found a little, micro-sized sound player. Looks promising, and best of all, cheap. Since 512megs is plenty to hold any sound you'd want, might be a useful little device. http://elm-chan.org/works/sd8p/report.html

Use tape to keep parts from flaring, or heavily crease some folds.

Honestly; being a geek/nerd/whateveryouwannacallit is a good thing. This stigma on being intellectual is entirely self-perceived, and in most circumstances, built out of outdated social observations. Being a nerd or geek doesn't immediately make you socially inept, physically impotent, or...

http://www.estreetplastics.com Sheet Styrene.

Well, this is what happens when you aren't paying total attention to something. It turns out that many pieces from the gun are practically useless; I've ripped the in-game models and it seems like the scaling is quite a bit off compared to what I have. That said, the entire frontal assembly is...

It really depends on if you have a vacuum forming machine at hand; if you do it's actually pretty cheap, but if not, the machine runs about 50-70 bucks; at least that's about how much mine seems to be coming out to. PETG is a pretty stable type of plastic that can handle the heating process...

Best method of work IMHO is to pep the visor, harden the pep and make it really clean and smooth, then just vacuum-form the visor. That way it's always the right size+shape.

So, the handle printed. It's a bit big on me, but that'll work, since part of the costume is likely going to involve rubberized gloves. I'll be cleaning the parts over the weekend, expect more info as time progresses. If anyone has the 3D model for the Dead Space 2 Advanced RIG/Suit (like...