Halloween 2018

Hex · Oct 29, 2018

Photos of the staff itself in better lighting plus some close ups of the LEDs in use. The mounting is ghetto as hell and I plan on making something more permanent for it. I'll probably go a little crazier with it i.e there's some LED strips (APA102) that are better supported by this board that support faster animation and even HDR (cuts down on brightness while still producing very deep rich colors -- Longer duration as a result hopefully)

I'm assuming they'll give me lead poisoning or cancer just by looking at them but DHGate has some chinese APA102 strips for like 1/3 the cost of the Neopixel's i'm using so I might go cheap and see how that works.

Fire staff:

LED strips:

Battery Pack/Board (wrapped in electrical tape):

Brad2770 · Oct 29, 2018

Still working on it.

Jive Turkey · Oct 29, 2018

Made my own Skeletor costume this year

Kovaks · Oct 29, 2018

Jive Turkey said:
Made my own Skeletor costume this year

Kovaks · Oct 30, 2018

Quite a bit of 3d printing for this Halloween, not as much as I wanted as the printer was acting up for a few weeks until I figured out the small issue. Had to reprint a lot and had about 1 roll of failures. Wife's whole office is doing star trek and the older boy is gonna be link.

Brad2770 · Oct 30, 2018

That stuff is awesome. I don’t want to show off my styrofoam and sandpaper anymore...

Why did you 3D print a remote to a TV?

Kais · Oct 30, 2018

Dummy remote for the wife? =D

Hex · Oct 30, 2018

So outside of the cost of the printer itself how much did that sword cost in materials? I've been eyeballing getting a 3D printer but the major hurdle is how much money am I going to dump into servicing and replacing filament as it depletes?

Kovaks · Oct 30, 2018

Brad2770 said:
That stuff is awesome. I don’t want to show off my styrofoam and sandpaper anymore...

Why did you 3D print a remote to a TV?

Nah man my stuff is easy, find file print paint... Styrofoam rakes way more work and talent. And your stuff looks great.

Kovaks · Oct 30, 2018

Hex said:
So outside of the cost of the printer itself how much did that sword cost in materials? I've been eyeballing getting a 3D printer but the major hurdle is how much money am I going to dump into servicing and replacing filament as it depletes?

The cost for the sword in plastic was probably 3 dollars maybe less, bigger cost in time, I think it was a 30 hour print. The filament I buy is $19 for a kg roll, if I hadn't had some issues I would say everything you see there is maybe 1 roll or less. Maintenance is not too expensive either, you can print replacement parts yourself, again it is time and failed prints that can cost, this time 2 screws worked their way out and it took 2 weeks to figure it out.

Heriotze · Oct 30, 2018

Brad2770 said:
That stuff is awesome. I don’t want to show off my styrofoam and sandpaper anymore...

Why did you 3D print a remote to a TV?

Man, you're really doing an awesome job with all of your builds and your kids and their friends are going to have a blast on Halloween because of that. You're doing God's work sir, bunch of kids having a great Halloween makes for a really happy childhood and some amazing adults in the future

Hex · Oct 30, 2018

Kovaks said:
The cost for the sword in plastic was probably 3 dollars maybe less, bigger cost in time, I think it was a 30 hour print. The filament I buy is $19 for a kg roll, if I hadn't had some issues I would say everything you see there is maybe 1 roll or less. Maintenance is not too expensive either, you can print replacement parts yourself, again it is time and failed prints that can cost, this time 2 screws worked their way out and it took 2 weeks to figure it out.

Very cool, thanks for the info! I think i'm going to look at the monoprice ones closer to christmas.

Kovaks · Oct 30, 2018

Hex said:
Very cool, thanks for the info! I think i'm going to look at the monoprice ones closer to christmas.

I would look at the creality ones too, low maintenance, huge build plates and pretty darn cheap

Brad2770 · Oct 30, 2018

Heriotze said:
Man, you're really doing an awesome job with all of your builds and your kids and their friends are going to have a blast on Halloween because of that. You're doing God's work sir, bunch of kids having a great Halloween makes for a really happy childhood and some amazing adults in the future

Had some issues with the paint reacting with the foam. Had to fill in some areas to make it smooth again. Everything will be done tomorrow. I’ll be posting up picks after the festivities.

Gamma Rays · Oct 31, 2018

Just think of the fun ( or trouble ) people will make once 3D metal printing gets more affordable.

Brad2770 · Oct 31, 2018

Teaser of the completed items. I’ll load the rest after all pics are taken.

Lanx · Oct 31, 2018

I put out a bowl of mini skittles

(bus'd in) the blacks ravage it

I open the door when i see little white kids coming up (cctv), thats where i keep the real full sized candy.

Brad2770 · Oct 31, 2018

TheNozz · Oct 31, 2018

My friend and I as Cable and Deadpool

Random family. This is brilliant

Vanessa · Oct 31, 2018

Nothing too spectacular, but we walked around the city, got a couple of free candy bars and correctly got called Freddy about a dozen times and incorrectly called Edward once LoL

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Halloween 2018

Hex

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Brad2770

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Jive Turkey

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Brad2770

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Kais

Hex

Lord Nagafen Raider

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Heriotze

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Lord Nagafen Raider

Kovaks

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Brad2770

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Gamma Rays

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Lanx

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TheNozz

Bronze Baron of the Realm

Vanessa

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