jakemisra
New Member
First project post to the rpf! I've learned a lot from everyone already, but I'm ready to show off a little bit.
Some background: my name is Jake Misra, a 24 year old senior in mechanical engineering at UIC. I have a background in conversational CNC machining, and currently work Dremel on the 3D Printer team.
Last year I did a (very crappy) Tony Stark, with some arc reactor I bought online and a suit. That was about it, and it was a huge hit. This year, I wanted to be a little more ambitious and build everything from scratch. Below is a picture of last year (cringe).
Initially I had wanted to build out an arc reactor and prototype metal arms with palm blasters, but I'm forgoing the metal prototypes. Instead, I'm going to rock some under-armor, an arc reactor, and two discrete palm blasters (similar to Iron Man 3 when he's without a suit).
First print to get me going
Prototyping the bottom half. I wanted a snap fit for everything, so this part got frustrating after a while.
Snap fits work!!
Wiring is pretty, my solder joints are crap. Don't judge please.
Experimenting with colors, I didn't get it right until it was fully assembled.
That's it so far! All the LEDs will be controlled with an Arduino, so I'll be able to do pulses and animations. I have to lock down the code, but running changes can be made easily. Right now I'm speccing out the palms.
I'm ordering 5 meters of EL wire as well, so they'll run from the arc reactor to my palms, underneath the under-armor.
Tell me what you think! I know Tony has been done a million times, but I'm trying to make this build a little "mine" anyway.
Some background: my name is Jake Misra, a 24 year old senior in mechanical engineering at UIC. I have a background in conversational CNC machining, and currently work Dremel on the 3D Printer team.
Last year I did a (very crappy) Tony Stark, with some arc reactor I bought online and a suit. That was about it, and it was a huge hit. This year, I wanted to be a little more ambitious and build everything from scratch. Below is a picture of last year (cringe).
Initially I had wanted to build out an arc reactor and prototype metal arms with palm blasters, but I'm forgoing the metal prototypes. Instead, I'm going to rock some under-armor, an arc reactor, and two discrete palm blasters (similar to Iron Man 3 when he's without a suit).
First print to get me going
Prototyping the bottom half. I wanted a snap fit for everything, so this part got frustrating after a while.
Snap fits work!!
Wiring is pretty, my solder joints are crap. Don't judge please.
Experimenting with colors, I didn't get it right until it was fully assembled.
That's it so far! All the LEDs will be controlled with an Arduino, so I'll be able to do pulses and animations. I have to lock down the code, but running changes can be made easily. Right now I'm speccing out the palms.
I'm ordering 5 meters of EL wire as well, so they'll run from the arc reactor to my palms, underneath the under-armor.
Tell me what you think! I know Tony has been done a million times, but I'm trying to make this build a little "mine" anyway.
