Light Em Up

Electronics:

Time to dabble in the wiring. Not my forte, that's for sure. But, I know the basics... enough to get by on this project. Not going to do anything crazy. 

Back on the machine guns:

With the flashlight disassembled, I soldered a positive and negative wire to their respective points no the circuit.

Tested it out with the battery pack that came with the flashlight. You can see a rough schematic drawing of my circuitry of all the elements going in to the helmet. 4 switches that would control the lighting and fans. Power drawn from a small portable 12v battery.

Wish I did know more about electronics , or else I really would go nuts. (fog generator, strobing lights, neon lighting, motorized faceplate, pop-up panelling, robotic voice changer, etc. ... possibilities are endless!)

Switch it up

Needed to find a good place to install the switch plate.

 Inside? On the back? Or the brow ridge? Under the chin?

 I think this is the way to go. Easiest to access. Those switches would be covered up by the "goatee"

Only thing I have to sort out is all the wiring that needs to get to switch plate. Obstacle being the fact that the wires needs to travel around a retractable face. Not really a big deal... since I built a convenient "channel" into the hinge point. Where I can pipe all my wiring through without the worry of any of the wires pinching by the pivoting action,

With a "scratch of the chin", I'm able to turn on all my lights and fans now.

Misc Details

Wasn't looking forward to this part of the pep build. These are cylindrical shapes on the head that are the machine guns and vents/exhausts.

 Just look at this print! Notice the tip of the x-acto knife?... THAT'S how thin this ring shape is! Every thing else is the tabs for gluing!! WTF Crazy.

Made it! Folded and glued.

Other random bits that extrude from the helmet. Looking the machine guns...I'm not really liking the outcome of it. I might fabricate it from something else. Who knows.. I might just use REAL cameras in there!

Some electrical bits. Micro switches, wires, 9v battery clips, and a couple of micro fans.