Tips and Tricks for making the Helmets

[DaftSauce]

I emailed him several days ago still haven't heard back, no biggy. If anyone knows, would these boards be all i need? Would i just be able to solder some LED's and transistors, and put them in a circuit? I'm not the most electronic savy person and i have no idea how to actually program the animations. On his site it says the chasers are the brains but on his order page the chasers don't appear in the kit.

Sorry for asking a bunch of questions just trying to figure everything out before i make a purchase.

Cheers!

No biggie! There are a lot of people that need help. There are a lot of components to the LED Kit. If you go to plasmado.com and click The FAQ page, there should be a question with an answer that takes you to the tutorial page.

For the LED chasers, a person named donnie programs them for you. In total you need 3 LED chasers which adds up to around $50 I think. Here is Donnie's email address: donniedj@anothercoilgunsite.com. On the plasmado site, I would recommend getting the mode numbers that tek has.

Anymore questions, feel free to ask. I am trying to get all of the components for my LED kit, so maybe we can work together on it by helping each other out.

[JackScoby]

How much would it cost to get a Thomas helmet chromed?

[Crank729]

About 3 to 4 hundred dollars.

[ctwalrus]

3fn will your helmet be done for halloween

[JackScoby]

No, im speaking on his behalf because he hasnt gotten it chromed, got a visor, or finished the leds. He has a thread on the RPF.

[ThreeFN]

No, im speaking on his behalf because he hasnt gotten it chromed, got a visor, or finished the leds. He has a thread on the RPF.

Yah, Jack hit it on the head. It's probably a bit worse than that, since the 'base' (the bit you chrome) hasn't been ordered in it's updated form yet.

At some point I need to work up a to do list for this thing, because it's gotten so massive and so complicated it's not only hard to keep track of it all, but hard to remember where the small 'lightbulb' moments and ideas go and what parts they are applicable to. I'm partially loathe to get 'that' organized about this project, because it strays towards 'work' and I like the amorphous nature of this project and how mush flexibility I can design into it. But I think it needs organization now.

I'm sure long time followers are wanting to kick me given the immense lack of progress. Work is suppose to get to normal-ish levels in the net few weeks when a number of the deadlines coalesce.

[DaLo]

Since I didn't made a good padding for my helmet, Id like to know what you guys used. Would be great if you could post a link or so where I can buy it.

I thought this would work, but Im not sure

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Moosgummi-Mot...-/350654905646

Thanks

[ThreeFN]

Since I didn't made a good padding for my helmet, Id like to know what you guys used. Would be great if you could post a link or so where I can buy it.

I thought this would work, but Im not sure

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Moosgummi-Mot...-/350654905646

Thanks

The thing about just sticking foam padding inside the helmet is that it will inevitably degrade over time just from putting it on and off.

I haven't gotten that far myself but here are some ideas that I've had:

A) take a bicycle helmet and remove the extraneous external hard foam. Cut and form it to shape so it fits in the bucket (Thomas helmet). Break it in half and glue it back together inside the helmet if need be.

B) do something similar with a climbing helmet or a construction hard hat. The difference being, those two types use a 'suspension band' style system that anchors to the hard bits, and so you may only need to remove those anchor bits from the surrounding plastic.

C) have a fiberglass 'head cage' made that is mounted to the helmet internals. The head cage is custom made most likely using a 'stone' cast of your head, since fiberglass + resin + hair + skin = something very very bad. Probably most expensive option but deadmau5 (yes the real one) had this done for one of his LED buckets, probably to help support the massive weight.

[Ice Cream Kid]

Since I didn't made a good padding for my helmet, Id like to know what you guys used. Would be great if you could post a link or so where I can buy it.

I thought this would work, but Im not sure

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Moosgummi-Mot...-/350654905646

Thanks

Er...I finished my helmet around the time my family decided to get new couches. There was some foam around some of the edges of the couches the way they were packaged...uhhh....I took the foam...and I stuck it in my helmet. All is well. The end.

[ThreeFN]

Er...I finished my helmet around the time my family decided to get new couches. There was some foam around some of the edges of the couches the way they were packaged...uhhh....I took the foam...and I stuck it in my helmet. All is well. The end.

Wells, as we know on this thread, I always go for the most complicated solutions