Aether converter cell
I was thinking of doing something Steampunk themed for Halloween, and thought I might spend a few hours prototyping a ‘raygun’ prop. This aether cell as far as I got, it would serve as the ‘ammo...
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I pulled an all-nighter and designed/fabricated a LED edge lighting box plus etched plate in advance of the Gears 3 launch. The original plan was to slide an unused junk android tablet in and show...
View ArticleSpeeding up LPD8806 show() without hardware SPI
If you’re using LPD8806 LED strips and you can’t use the hardware SPI port (e.g., when using an Ethernet board), there are two other options in the Adafruit library: the default mode and ‘slowmo’ mode....
View ArticleIron Man 3 Chest Arc Reactor
I made this prop to wear to the Iron Man 3 release (and to test out some new technology for a future project). Arc Reactor The whole thing was designed in OpenSCAD and 3D printed in ABS (both the...
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