Been busy working on redoing the gloves, fingers and hand plates. Was having a hard time getting cloth gloves inside the gloves and fingers and since I resized the gloves, the hand plates an repulsers had to be redone. Yes those are milk jug caps on the back of the repulsers...gotta love recycling! I used Darkside's mods of Zabana's gloves so the repulser ring wasn't in the pep. I just used the thick walled PVC pipe and acrylic pieces cut with hole saws.
Worked and reworked the fingers to get them to align correctly. What a PITA. Used 90 pound test to keep my channels free as resined/bondoed/painted and that worked pretty well.
Also got my helmet working with the same sort of hinge set up Honus shared. The original hinges were too bulky and the action was a bit rough. Going to his set up made a huge difference. Honus has been a big help with schematics, and his Instructables tutorials have been a great resource (yes they are bookmarked).
The original eye lights were too bulky to fit inside the helmet with the repositioned servo, so I redid them as well. Someone had asked about the Adafruit white backlit displays on another post and I decided to give them a shot. Only take 3v per "lens" so they take much less power than the LED strips I had cut out and are only $2.50 a piece. I just cut them to shape, soldered the leads together, used foil tape on the backside to block the light and hot glued them in. They are super thin (about 1/8") and plenty bright as you can see by the video. Only downside to them was the leads were kind of hard to solder to and I didn't like bending them like I had to.
Here is a link to the wireless helmet working.
http://youtu.be/4S9lVqZ7Tj8
Been working on THAT for the past month. Situating my servo, reprogramming the speed and figuring out the code for using an RFID reader and XBee like Honus did. Getting into lots of stuff that really intimidated me when I started this project, but I figured if I can ace my college Assembly Language class, I can handle this stuff. Now to solder all my breadboarded circuits and on to getting my sound working for the gloves. Lights I have figured out, it's the sound with the spark fun microSD audio module and amp breakout that has me scratching my head as to how to get that all working together. I understand the sound format required for the module make it problematic, so I guess I get to do some more research...
Am posting some pics, then will up load the rest in a second post since we can only upload 10 at a time.