The back of the head was made to house a hard hat but eventually I adjusted it to house only the portion of the hard hat that goes around your head. Inside of the helmet wired up with the MPU6050 and 3 freaking laser beams. I went with aluminum because it is easy to shape and dull so that it is not sharp.Īnd the final fit and test with a pull from a string.ĥv lasers set up to go on when the servos turn on. The plastic claws looked nice printed, but I wanted something a little stronger. You can see the green piece acts as a pivot point in the gauntlet and the blue stick prevents the claws from sliding too far forward. I made some changes to the original pepakura file and incorporated a latch system to allow the redesigned blades to be locked in an extended or retracted mode. Start with the pepakura file and make it printable. Making retractable claws is not the easiest so I decided to go with gravity as the extension and retraction method. The sound out went to a 3.5mm headphone jack which will plug into an external speaker.įinal outside picture of the left gauntlet. I wired it up with an adafruit soundfx board and started wiring everything together. Let's allow holes for momentary switches and latching switches, cat5 connection and audio out on the flip plate: I also made a slot for my Phone below the flip plate. Left Gauntlet - Creation, sound and control.Ĭontinuing with the planning, let's start with the pepakura file and add a hinge in the print so that it can flip up if I need it to. This is a shot from underneath where the power switch is as well as the recharge port. Using this tutorial, I grabbed an Arduino Mega, an MPU6050, battery pack and wired everything up with 2 Cat 5 connections (One that goes to the helmet Where the mpu6050 will sit, and one to the left gauntlet for controls and sound) I only used half of this model from thingiverse and fitted it with a spot for a flashlight and a servo and an outlet for the wires to go out the lower back.īoth halves are held together with 8/32 screws and nuts. This will be the shell to house most of electronics and power bank. I first ended up fixing the files and printing it out. This model was good for pepakura but not for a 3d print. It took about a month in spare time to fix everything up and resize it all to my body. Then I went to Thingiverse to see what they had and grabbed Predator Shoulder Cannon by makerslabcz.Īfter I had all the files, it was time to get to work and make everything printable. I went to the and into their resources to get a bunch of Pepakura files to start converting for my project. Like all things, we start with the planning. This build will be my version of a similar styled P1 Predator with as many bells and whistles as I can put together. This costume was put together for under 500 I believe. I can't make the costume perfect movie accurate because 1) I am no where near the height of the original actor who played the predator and 2) picture perfect is time and cost consuming. Well not a 1/6th scale costume but rather a full sized one. My late 2019 project I decided to take on was a Predator Costume like the one from the 1987 movie Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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