Ghostbusters Proton Pack with Arduino and LASERS!

Step 7 Final thoughts

Thanks for reading!  I hope you enjoyed my little 'ible and found it useful and/or amusing.  I am very tired and feeling quite silly at the moment.

Please take the time to vote for me in the Arduino contest!  Also, please leave me a rating or some feedback.  It's pretty late right now, and I know I wasn't too descriptive in the technical details this time, so if you need some clarification, don't be afraid to ask. 

Also, if you post some pictures of your own home made proton pack, post 'em in the comments below.  I'll send you a DIY patch!

Comments

[jrme421]

i have to say its the best ghosbuster costume but cant you give detailed info as well as schematics on how to build it. im building the ark reactor this year for halloween cause there are very detailed plans on how to. but next year i would like to spend it to build your costume.

please share your knowledge

[depotdevoid]

I really didn't save too much detail from the actual build process. If you take a look at step one, you'll see a bunch of links, and I was serious about them!  Especially check the link to gbfans, that's where I found schematics, and the link to my kid sized proton pack, as I used the same techniques to build that as I used for the full size one, only I took a lot more process pictures.

I hope that helps!  If  you have any specific questions, I'd be happy to answer and help in any way I can.

[Catskinner01]

Find your local gaming, comic book, or whatever-convention and wear your costume there.  Here in Atlanta, the biggie is DragonCon; I think you'd like it.
Oh, and great costume!  I love the pack, with the multiple lights and lighting tricks.  VERY nice.

[depotdevoid]

I've heard so much about DragonCon lately from the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast, I really wish it wasn't on the other side of the country!  I'm sure there's something going on here in the northwest, so maybe I'll find one and attend.

Thanks for the comment Catskinner, it's great to have all this feedback!

[Catskinner01]

The SkepTrack at DragonCon is a lot of fun.  We had The Amazing Randi the year before last, and he was GREAT.  I'm sorry you missed it.

[depotdevoid]

Wow, I am JEALOUS!

I'd like to go to TAM one of these years, since it's a lot closer to me, but that won't be any time soon.  I just bought a house, so I suspect I'm going to be poor for a while.

It's nice to meet a fellow skeptic!

[Catskinner01]

Myself as well!  I've yet to attend TAM (The Amazing Meeting for anyone wondering).  I very much want to, but where you have a new house (congratulations!), we have a new baby on the way and thus are/will be broke as well.
As for TAM, go soon.  Randi isn't getting any younger.  He looked disturbingly frail two years ago, and we* are all worried about him.

* I used to live in Florida, very near him.  My skeptical friends & I are kinda possessive, as though we had some claim on his wonderfulness.  :-)

[depotdevoid]

Randi was on the last episode of the SGU, and he was sounding a lot better, though I know he's into his eighties now and he's going through chemo.  I can understand feeling a little possessive about someone like him! 

Can you believe I'd somehow skated through 29 years of life without ever having heard of the Amazing Randi?  I didn't even really know what a "Big S" Skeptic was until this June when I came across Brian Dunning's Skeptoid podcast.  I've spent the last few months reading Randi, Shermer, and Sagan, while trying not to piss off my friends like some sort of born-again eager to spread the Gospel of Critical Thinking.

Congratulations for the baby!  Being a parent is one of those things in life that's unbelievably difficult but absolutely worth it.

[hogtowner]

Anything creative is not just for nerds!  LOL  You are an artiste!  Great costume!  Thought and execution make the best costumes.  Image if you patented your idea and sold them at local stores where they sell costumes?
And simple is the way to go.  The more complex, the more to go wrong.

[depotdevoid]

Thanks Hogtowner!  Man, what a great idea, actually getting paid for tinkering and making things?  What a beautiful, beautiful dream . . .