IronSmidge
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(Feel free to delete if this thread has already been done. I did a search but didn't find this specific info)
Smidge's $6 arc reactor!
I had a lousy tap light for my Mark 3 armor for Halloween and was looking for alternatives, but hadn't found anything good as of yet. One day, I found this little gem at Fred Meyer for $5 plus tax, so for argument's sake I rounded up to $6 in the title.
It's a tap-light, like before, but the center circle with the three lights is the button and the rest is static. I checked to see if there were ten or eight lights on the outer trim and the answer is ten:
So the short version is that this thing is a STEAL. But it's not quite accurate. Here's where working at a pizza joint saved my bacon. I made a ring of white plastic from a big ol' tub of Ricotta Cheese (Thoroughly cleaned, natch) and a disc to cover the middle. I stripped some wire from a set of christmas lights I bought to try a different method for the reactor (and, hey, a buttload of white LEDs for $7.) and wound it around in the spaced between the lights. A little hot glue, some creative Sharpie, and voila:
(I did end up adding a bit more Sharpie detail after this shot.)
I made a clear plastic pane in the chest panel of my suit and it has a hole, so I can reach in and tap it off to conserve battery. Hope this is an economical and helpful solution for someone! My favorite part is that it has a loop that swivels on the back for wall-mounting and I use that to safety-pin the reactor to my under-shirt and chest binding when I'm plain-clothes Tony.
Omake~
*PEW PEW*
Smidge's $6 arc reactor!
I had a lousy tap light for my Mark 3 armor for Halloween and was looking for alternatives, but hadn't found anything good as of yet. One day, I found this little gem at Fred Meyer for $5 plus tax, so for argument's sake I rounded up to $6 in the title.
It's a tap-light, like before, but the center circle with the three lights is the button and the rest is static. I checked to see if there were ten or eight lights on the outer trim and the answer is ten:
So the short version is that this thing is a STEAL. But it's not quite accurate. Here's where working at a pizza joint saved my bacon. I made a ring of white plastic from a big ol' tub of Ricotta Cheese (Thoroughly cleaned, natch) and a disc to cover the middle. I stripped some wire from a set of christmas lights I bought to try a different method for the reactor (and, hey, a buttload of white LEDs for $7.) and wound it around in the spaced between the lights. A little hot glue, some creative Sharpie, and voila:
(I did end up adding a bit more Sharpie detail after this shot.)
I made a clear plastic pane in the chest panel of my suit and it has a hole, so I can reach in and tap it off to conserve battery. Hope this is an economical and helpful solution for someone! My favorite part is that it has a loop that swivels on the back for wall-mounting and I use that to safety-pin the reactor to my under-shirt and chest binding when I'm plain-clothes Tony.
Omake~
*PEW PEW*
