LDJosh
New Member
Hey everyone!
Super glad I found this place. I know I'm new here, so let me toss out a synopsis of what I posed in my introduction thread (since I'm pretty sure in the 15 years i've been using internet forums that hardly anyone reads those.) I was big into cosplay through highschool and my freshman year of college 10 years ago, but life happened and it fell off my grid. Got back into it about 8 months ago and DAMN has it changed in the last decade. Quality materials are relatively cheap and accessible and talented people are all over the place. We're living in the best time ever to be a nerd.
Anywho, so after my first con in years (and being slightly unsatisfied with my last minute cosplay attempt) I began discussing with some friends that I wanted to take things to the next level. I have an idea for a Cyclops cosplay that I'm quite excited about, but before we go in that direction we're going to do a prototype build in a different way.
We're in the early stages of a semi-functional ironman glove.
This is where you can get your eye rolling out of the way. :rolleyes
I'm not a 14 year old, wide eyed day dreaming youth. I'm 27, I quit my job a year ago to open my own programming firm. My main roommate has a comp-sci degree and is working on his physics degree and our other roommate is working on his bio doctorate. my best friend is working on his aerospace engineering degree and has a cert in mechanic drafting and we're all electrical engineer hobby nerds.
This is the target build's endgame:
http://content.mydamnchannel.com/datastore/UserFiles/iron-man-downey-jr.jpg
in this youtube video:
445nm burning Laser Glove Mk III - YouTube
You can see the basic concept we're looking to replicate. this guy is using a 1 watt (1000mw) 445 blue laser. it's palm mounted and he's using a pressure switch so it triggers when he bends his palm. The mechanism is clever, and we plan to borrow the basic concept there, but with some changes. For starters, we're going to house it in a replica ironman glove, using the fore-arm to hold the power. 1000mw is waaay more than enough. 300mw 808's can be bought all over ebay for about 5$ and that's more than enough for our purposes. I plan to install a saftey on/off switch in the forearm rigging that will trigger an array of led's in the palm (for the light you see), and when 'fired' it will set off an array of flashbulbs (ripped from disposable cameras - 4) inside the palm to simulate a blast, while the laser itself actually fires, relatively unseen. we'll be adjusting the power to the point where it can pop a balloon fairly quickly, but nothing more (roughly 250mw).
Again, we're adults, these are lasers. Do not point at people, pets, clothing, etc...
If all goes according to plan (we have most of the parts in the apartment now), this is the start of a series of projects that include cyke's optic blast, a couple beam katanas from No More Heroes, and others.
We're also working on a set of webshooters with some folks from another forum as soon as we get the chemical structure to work well. currently it's a liquid that becomes a semisolid pretty quick forming strands that can hold about 10lbs, but it's smelly and flammable. I'll make another thread for that soon.
I'm posting this here because this is a forum full of super smart people and the more minds, the better. If you guys have any ideas on ways to make this better, more efficient, etc. I'm totally open to suggestions.
Glad to be here and I look forward to getting to know you all!
-LD Josh
Super glad I found this place. I know I'm new here, so let me toss out a synopsis of what I posed in my introduction thread (since I'm pretty sure in the 15 years i've been using internet forums that hardly anyone reads those.) I was big into cosplay through highschool and my freshman year of college 10 years ago, but life happened and it fell off my grid. Got back into it about 8 months ago and DAMN has it changed in the last decade. Quality materials are relatively cheap and accessible and talented people are all over the place. We're living in the best time ever to be a nerd.
Anywho, so after my first con in years (and being slightly unsatisfied with my last minute cosplay attempt) I began discussing with some friends that I wanted to take things to the next level. I have an idea for a Cyclops cosplay that I'm quite excited about, but before we go in that direction we're going to do a prototype build in a different way.
We're in the early stages of a semi-functional ironman glove.
This is where you can get your eye rolling out of the way. :rolleyes
I'm not a 14 year old, wide eyed day dreaming youth. I'm 27, I quit my job a year ago to open my own programming firm. My main roommate has a comp-sci degree and is working on his physics degree and our other roommate is working on his bio doctorate. my best friend is working on his aerospace engineering degree and has a cert in mechanic drafting and we're all electrical engineer hobby nerds.
This is the target build's endgame:
http://content.mydamnchannel.com/datastore/UserFiles/iron-man-downey-jr.jpg
in this youtube video:
445nm burning Laser Glove Mk III - YouTube
You can see the basic concept we're looking to replicate. this guy is using a 1 watt (1000mw) 445 blue laser. it's palm mounted and he's using a pressure switch so it triggers when he bends his palm. The mechanism is clever, and we plan to borrow the basic concept there, but with some changes. For starters, we're going to house it in a replica ironman glove, using the fore-arm to hold the power. 1000mw is waaay more than enough. 300mw 808's can be bought all over ebay for about 5$ and that's more than enough for our purposes. I plan to install a saftey on/off switch in the forearm rigging that will trigger an array of led's in the palm (for the light you see), and when 'fired' it will set off an array of flashbulbs (ripped from disposable cameras - 4) inside the palm to simulate a blast, while the laser itself actually fires, relatively unseen. we'll be adjusting the power to the point where it can pop a balloon fairly quickly, but nothing more (roughly 250mw).
Again, we're adults, these are lasers. Do not point at people, pets, clothing, etc...
If all goes according to plan (we have most of the parts in the apartment now), this is the start of a series of projects that include cyke's optic blast, a couple beam katanas from No More Heroes, and others.
We're also working on a set of webshooters with some folks from another forum as soon as we get the chemical structure to work well. currently it's a liquid that becomes a semisolid pretty quick forming strands that can hold about 10lbs, but it's smelly and flammable. I'll make another thread for that soon.
I'm posting this here because this is a forum full of super smart people and the more minds, the better. If you guys have any ideas on ways to make this better, more efficient, etc. I'm totally open to suggestions.
Glad to be here and I look forward to getting to know you all!
-LD Josh
