Congratulations on your awesome pack and winning the competition. Fantastic work.

Bloody hell!

Am I glad I stumbled into this thread.

Awesome.

I'm really enjoying following along with this.

Very tidy work. I've been contemplating what would be involved in turning my largely MDF pack into a buck but I'm put off the idea of buying all the supplies to do a glass-fibre shell. I am getting a bit browned off by the sheer weight of the MDF though and I'm not convinced I can lighten it any mor...

Nice work overall. It will be worth it.

Nice electronics design too. Looking forward to seeing how you deal with the thrower lights.

This may be a daft question, (sorry to hijack your thread mate) but how robust are resin wands? The only times I have ever dealt with resin was fine detail aftermarket parts for plastic aircraft kits, and it was always very brittle. You could sneaze and it would shatter! I'd like to think that bigg...

Sorry for necroing an old thread, but I figured it'd be good to at least get ONE answer, in case someone else new comes looking for the same thing. I love this site, many of the people here freely share their time and expertese but I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. I've seen a number of i...

I'll be uploading code and circuit designs to a GIT repository over the next few days:

https://github.com/martinux/proton_pack_arduino

EDIT: Here's a circuit diagram overview.

Hope nobody minds a bit of thread necromancy but this might be useful to someone. The following arduino code is an updated version of the code I posted in the thread above. It replaces the delays in the code with 'time slicing' which decreases the lag between power-on/firing/cool-down. Note that som...

Bloody. Epic.

Congrats on a unique take on the pack. I have to admit that i never thought that a RGB colour scheme would work well but I aam totally sold.

Extraordinary work!

I love just about everything about this.

Heh, I thought you were holding off on releasing until you had all metric and imperial units on the sheets.

No worries, better to take one's time and get it right.

Cheers.

Did I miss something?

I only see one image with measurements, you suggested there would be 3-4 sheets in total.

Kingpin: If you don't mind, would you release the plans with the measurements in mm? Many of us aren't tied to imperial units.

The problem with amateur 3D printers is that there is a handful of things that they make really well and, consequently, there's an expectation that they can make pretty much anything to the same quality. I'm increasingly seeing them as a great idea for a group of enthusiastic people to tinker with r...

A RepRap is great in theory but it will take a crazy amount of optimisation to get a print resolution that you'd be happy with. I wouldn't go into this aiming to use an untested tool to create something you might need within a fixed time-frame. You might be better asking around local maker labs to s...

Watching this one with interest.

Nick's work is excellent.

This thread has been a joy to follow.

Thanks for documenting everything.

Absolutely excellent!

I'll be adding the PKE to my to-build list.

I was subjected to a drive-by compliment last night. A guy yelled out of his car, "That's the best costume I've ever seen! Bustin' makes me feel good!"

I suspect he was a Ghostbusters fan but I'm not completely sure...

Kudos on your level-headed response, Dan. gbfans is an amazing resource. It's amazing because of the care and attention to detail that many of its members (particularly those who fabricate parts for sale) have for the props. Those of us who cannot afford to invest the time (and those who do not want...

Damn, you make me want to have a go at making an RGB pack... TOO MANY PROJECTS!

Excellent, I took a bunch of days off work to build mine. I can't imagine working and building the pack.

Nick was a life-saver for me as well. Remind me to buy you a pint if I ever see you in the flesh, Nick.

Awesome work, well done.

In my pack heavy objects are bolted onto the mobo (12mm MDF), PCB's are stuck down with double-sided foam pads for later maintenance. Never had an issue with the despite lots of travel.

Other people mount brackets on the mobo's or bolt everything down - probably best for long-term usage.

Well done!

I think this is an excellent example of the range of ways an arduino has been used to solve the same problem.

Nice work and even more kudos for the Slimer costume, I knew there was a reason why stores sold green sheets.

You're going to be putting a lot of work into the theorycraft of fabricating a mount on the actual ALICE Frame. For 'quick release', I'd use something like a trap holster that simply has the gun hooked onto it, although that would necessitate removing the S-Hook. This is a pretty decent idea. The v...

Very impressive build. I particularly liked your spacer construction.

I'd tried primer straight onto my own MDF pack before realising that the unpreped material wasn't going to take paint well.