EASY ARC REACTOR. Period.

[STEALTH]

Is there a good youtube video or page on creating this arc reactor and other ones? I bought the one on think geek and it sucked. Id like to be able to make a better one for halloween.

I came up with a simple tutorial. He based it off this but changed the housing to a plastic kitchen sink strainer.
TUTORIAL - IRON MAN ARC REACTOR Costume Light Prop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsWNdHaouSE

 

[smcguiga]

Well I decided to give this a shot...I have a little hotglue mess with the center LED and I realized after the fact that I should have made 10 copper windings instead of just 8 :facepalm but hey its my first go at it. I decided to use Stealth's idea of the coffe mug top. I pulled the metal ring off the plastic and it slipped over the sink stopper PERFECTLY.

Thanks for the ideas! :cool

 

[Andyf430]

Looks great! Yeah, the stealth tutorial was my first plan, but I couldn't find any coffee tumblers that were big enough for my costume. Nice hybrid lol Thanks again to Stealth. For my ring, I just carefully used 2 hole saws and a piece of acrylic from Home Depot

 

[predpaul]

Well I decided to give this a shot...I have a little hotglue mess with the center LED and I realized after the fact that I should have made 10 copper windings instead of just 8 :facepalm but hey its my first go at it. I decided to use Stealth's idea of the coffe mug top. I pulled the metal ring off the plastic and it slipped over the sink stopper PERFECTLY.

Thanks for the ideas! :cool

Hi forgive me if it has been answered but what did you use to light it? I have an Expo in 4 days and my arc reactor lighting is poor to say the least. Thanks in advance

Paul

 

[smcguiga]

I used 9 LEDs and a 9 volt battery. Search ebay for LEDs. I think I purchased a pack of 20 prewired LEDs.

 

[laellee]

Andy, I gotta say that's just about the most clever and innovative thing I've seen in a while. Thanks for sharing, great discovery (and work).

 

[predpaul]

I used 9 LEDs and a 9 volt battery. Search ebay for LEDs. I think I purchased a pack of 20 prewired LEDs.

Thanks I'm in the UK so will have to get them locally. What color and type are they do you have a link?

EDIT: I think I found them http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Prewired-...mponents_Supplies_ET&var=&hash=item53f5d4b381

Paul