I'm guessing you didn't get stainless steel hooks? I used ones similar to these. They bend easily, and they sell them at Home Depot:

I bet we could design a pretty good plastic cover which, with some refractive properties similar to the CD cases, could give the illusion of being like the genuine bargraph After seeing that LED bargraph, I got to thinking it might be possible to create a lens with similar properties by laser cutti...

You know it was pretty shitty of you two to sit on this information for three years and only release it after someone else independently discovered it and was kind enough to share what they'd learned with the community. Worse still is that it appears you created a new thread specifically to distance...

Amazing! What does it take to power and animate them? Is it something the mighty could handle? It appears to have 30 filaments. If you drove the filaments in pairs that would give you 15 pairs, the same as the number of LEDs in a standard thower bargraph. Then, assuming 20mA was sufficient to light...

Just posted an update over on Kickstarter which might interest some folks:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha ... ller/posts

I think the two-tone effect may simply be a result of the gloves having a textured surface on the palm. There's no way that's neoprene.

Oh, it was just locked this morning because my supporting membership expired. It's open again. The next shipment will be Tuesday and larger than the last shipment. Would have been ready Friday but the fellow who loaned the me the pack I've been using for the demos wanted it done for the St. Patty's ...

Damn. Nice clean install. I dare say you might almost have enough room left for an extending barrel assembly.

While I was reading this whole thing, a thought occurred to me, everyone is bringing up the toxicity and flammable aspects of this, I I'd like to add that you're dealing with compressed air ,c02, whatever. What if something were to come loose and turn your N-filter (or any part of your pack) into a...

I don't think there's any danger of frostbite with how he has it set up. The gas has time to expand and warm up inside the n-filter. Frostbite would happen if you sprayed it directly on your finger for some period of time. As for chemical burns, I don't see any warning on the can about that and I ki...

Why not just use canned smoke?] That stuff reportedly uses the same stuff as a fog machine, and hangs in the air: http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/06/12/smoke-spray-in-a-can/ I don't think cons and bars would appreciate you using that inside. The Co2 they might be okay with. I brought dry ice into a bun...

I thought canned air was just compressed air, but it turns out it does contain lots of nasty sounding chemicals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_duster That being the case, maybe I should tell you about an idea I've been researching... When I heard folks were using canned air, my first thought was ...

Videos appear to be back in Firefox. Perhaps it was just a temporary glitch.

I noticed a video had gone missing from one of my threads, and checked another thread and they were gone there as well. I'm using Firefox and to make sure it wasn't just a glitch with my browser I tried viewing the pages in IE, and they were missing there was well, but it did provide a clue as to th...

Updates are being posted in the For Sale thread:
http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... 31&t=32520

I can do the warning beeps before the vent sequence when you're firing normally, but it looks like I will have to keep the beeps during the venting when you are in slo-blo mode, because the shotgun, like the muon blaster in that video I linked to, doesn't heat the pack up over time but instead adds ...

Heh, actually that video segment I linked to demonstrates how I may have gotten mixed up, because when he fires the muon blast or whatever that is, the pack overheats instantly, and the beeps trigger, and the pack begins venting at the same time, and since they mix sound effects you hear both at onc...

and what else i mean is at 4.10 on the vid you say if you hit the vent the leds will return to there normal speed. the cyclotron opens then when you flick it up we just get a powerup sound which makes no sense because the cyclotronwould still be still open No, what happens is when you flip it down,...

It appears you're correct about the overload beep. Damnit! Originally I was going to have the kit function that way (beeping leading up to overload) since it made sense, but I decided to check out some videos of the game for reference (my PC and so my copy of the game has been out of commission for ...

also in the beginning of the vid when you hit the vent switch the cyclotron opens then when you hit that switch back up it just plays the powerup sound and no cyclotron closing. is this just how you have it configured? The reason it does that is because I'm trying to combine how the pack functions ...

i hear it now. i thought there was no cyclotron closing sound. but there is, shouldnt there be a powerup sound after the cyclotron closes not just going straight into the hum There isn't a powerup sound in the game after the overheat vent, so no. You do hear the powerup sound when you do the quick ...

question after you held the front orange button for 8 it overheated and only vented down but didnt do the other half of the vent What do you mean? Both halves of the vent sound played. Are you referring to the animation on the bargraph? That's intentional. It's supposed to represent the dropping te...

Going to try to have the code done in another week or so, and I am waiting on a shipment of 3mm leds that may take a couple weeks. They'll start going out after those arrive. In the meantime if I get the code done, I'll start assembling the powercells and bargraphs and switches so I have those ready.

Just a quick video I put together today with some footage I took at the parade a few weeks back:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMCsbQYUGrY

(May not play on mobile devices because of music licensing issues.)

I got some money and a box of scones.

The kits are now available for preorder.

Here is the thread in the For Sale forum:
http://www.gbfans.com/community/viewtop ... 31&t=32520

There are only 35 kits remaining at this time. The rest are already spoken for.

Nice! Glad to hear my music LEDs suggestion is in the works. So one thing I didn't hear in either video is a pack shut down sound effect - there's a shut down after the firing, but not one for when the pack is turned off. Is that going to be added in, or...? I can't do it when you shut down the mai...

Got the new video up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLGnVd03MxM




Forgot to demo the vibration for this one, but you can see that in the other video.

Done recording the video. Now editing.

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Rendering the video now. Should be ready in about an hour and a half.