Apocalypse
Jr Member
Hey man, just saw this thread and I was curious. Just a few opinions on what you have proposed. The retractable blades, are in short, awesome, was dreaming about that but decided against it due to the deviation from the halo universe. Some ideas though, depending on how big the blade(Actual metal, or...?), you could do sort of a switch blade open/close, or a spring loaded version, both of which could be held in a seperate casing that can magnetically attach to your gauntlets. As for the magnets on the back for the guns, again, large quantities of awesome, I will definetly be doing that when I get that far. It was the same advice given to me, along with the suggestion to use 3 magnets to keep the weapons from spinning, though if you space them out far enough I think 2 might be plenty.
Onto the motion tracker, and things with cameras. I've thought about this quite a bit as well, and have a slightly more expensive, and complicated approach planned out, but I can give you some ideas that I think might help. Cheap webcams are your friends, or you could take apart a baby monitor with an LCD screen and camera(This is one that was used to make an incredible scope with night vision for a sniper rifle, though I forgot who made it, http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Infant-Handheld-Monitor-Screen/dp/B0007OD8SU). I'm not sure how familiar you are with electrical engineering type work, but I'm sure you could make that work. You could alternatively rip apart an old cell phone with a camera in it. A rather import note that was brought up in another thread, I dont know whether or not you are near sighted, but keep in mind how hard it will be to focus on anything that is visor-close to your face. Thats all i can think of for now, shoot me a PM if you wanna bounce some ideas off me, I'll keep on eye on this thread for your progress too.
Good Luck!
-Apoc
Onto the motion tracker, and things with cameras. I've thought about this quite a bit as well, and have a slightly more expensive, and complicated approach planned out, but I can give you some ideas that I think might help. Cheap webcams are your friends, or you could take apart a baby monitor with an LCD screen and camera(This is one that was used to make an incredible scope with night vision for a sniper rifle, though I forgot who made it, http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Infant-Handheld-Monitor-Screen/dp/B0007OD8SU). I'm not sure how familiar you are with electrical engineering type work, but I'm sure you could make that work. You could alternatively rip apart an old cell phone with a camera in it. A rather import note that was brought up in another thread, I dont know whether or not you are near sighted, but keep in mind how hard it will be to focus on anything that is visor-close to your face. Thats all i can think of for now, shoot me a PM if you wanna bounce some ideas off me, I'll keep on eye on this thread for your progress too.
Good Luck!
-Apoc