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By Tyrael
#4834559
The other day I had one of those random-ass thoughts that pop into your head out of nowhere. With the new movie coming up (for good or evil, we have yet to see), what will a more modern PKE look like? Or, if we go by the original movies, what would it look like over time and variation by franchise?

I thought about it for a while and realized that having to hold the thing to take a scan could be an issue for some situations, so why not mount it to the wrist? After an hour or so in SolidWorks, I had this drawn up:
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That's the top part of the shell. Bottom is a pretty basic box with some screw mount hardpoints. Not really worth posting a pic of it. It could either be mounted to the offhand arm via straps or Velcro/hook-and-loop. I didn't go with the moving wings (though I do love them) because it was just a simple idea and I didn't really care to pursue it to including stepper motors or anything; just a simple chaser and backlight would do.

Anyway, just another one of those random thoughts that I spared a bit of time to developing. I'm printing the shells tonight and tomorrow as a bit of a time-waster in between working at my job and working on the second iteration of my Giga Meter kits. I've already got some spare chaser circuits around that I can use for this (developed for my Thunder and Lightning pack that I keep putting off) so putting it all together shouldn't take much effort.
#4834636
That's pretty cool. I'd like something like that to put my phone in at cons.
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#4834683
That would be sweet. It could still have the blinky lights but fit an iPhone as the display.
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By Tyrael
#4838024
Finally got around to remodeling it from the ground up and fixing the dimensions. A bit less shoe-sized this time around.
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Already got a simple chaser circuit ordered from OSH Park for the perimeter LEDs and a static light for the backlight and three rectangular LEDs below it. Overall, very simplistic, but different.

There may be another project I'm working on in those pictures...
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By Tyrael
#4839556
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The OSH Park boards ended up refusing to work for some damn reason, so I went ahead with the original plan and used a spare compact pack wrist gauntlet chaser I had leftover from that project for this.

All in all, a pretty fun little side project. Nothing exceedingly complex, but still enjoyable to work on.
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#4839560
It's obviously not accurate, but I like the idea. I still think it would be a cool way to store a phone at an event.
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Tyrael wrote:If you think I was going for screen accuracy for a custom prop, I think there's miscommunication happening. :-P
Lol, not at all. I still think it's a cool idea and might be interested in one.
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By Tyrael
#4839571
I'll see what I can drum up for designs later. Right now I'm in panicked-maker mode since DragonCon is nearing on a month away and I'm going to be building another (much bigger) custom piece for that!

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