Make your own Portal Sentry Turret Egg Cup

I made this Portal Turret egg cup using materials I had at home. These materials are also widely available at hobby shops. It may be easier to create the egg cup with other methods, such as welding, machine working, 3D printing, etc., but I used what I had at hand. Makes breakfast a little more science-y.

Step 1 Materials / Tools

Here is the materials and tools list. The image doesn't show everything and a few items I didn't use in the end.

Creating the Egg Cup Frame:
Floral or Garden wire, 1.5mm diameter (in black if possible)
Thin Aluminium Wire, 0.5mm or less*
Strong, non-toxic adhesive for metal work*
Various Dowels or other round objects
Helping Third Hand tool or a vise
Pliers and wire cutters


Creating the Egg Cup Decoration:
White Fimo
Black Fimo
Fimo Roller
Flexible Ruler*
Aluminium Foil*
Egg Shell, bottom half and empty*
Dremel & fine sanding tip (optional)*


Decorating the Egg:
Soft-Boiled Egg, cool enough to handle*
Red Felt Tip Pen
Black Felt Tip Pen


Reference Images:
Google Images for "Portal Turret"
http://hellsplumber.deviantart.com/art/Portal-Turret-99072569
http://gameanxiety.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/portal-2-review/
http://www.robotshop.com/blog/images/Turret-portal.jpg


*Not shown in image.

Comments

[gt11182]

Cute!!!

[tommiesmee]

"i'm different..."

[dombeef]

(How about Want You Gone(Portal 2)?)

Well, here we are again.

[Tzite]

It's always such a pleasure.
Remember when you tried to kill me twice...

[dombeef]

Oh, how we laughed and laughed.
Except I wasn't laughing.

[vulcan24]

Under the circumstances I've been shockingly nice!
Portal 2 ftw

[dombeef]

You want your freedom? Take it.
That's what I'm counting on.

I used to want you dead but now I only want you gone

[sonicgreg]

C-C-COMBO-BREAKER!

[Supernewby]

Cake is never a lie with me.

[jozaud]

SHOULD TOTALLY BE DONE WITH THIS:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Egg-cakes/

portal turret egg filled with cake.
i want one.

[gt_cochran]

Cant be done. The cake is a lie.

[blah42]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
glados promised not to lie
the cake is not a lie
the cake is not a lie
the cake is not a lie

[The nerdling]

lol

[jozaud]

THE cake is a lie. that SPECIFIC one.

and actually it isn't even a lie. the model is in the game, and you can get to it by glitching yourself out of the level. This video is completely mindblowing. all of the first game in 15 minutes, and then he gets the cake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1U5RUVENNE

[gt_cochran]

I've done that myself. It is amazing that someone actually found how to do that.

[RatCamper]

The cake is in the game anyway. No glitch needed. Even though it's been around for a while it'd still be a spoiler for anyone who hasn't played it.

[jozaud]

yeah. the guy who did that speedrun spent HOURS and HOURS and HOURS figuring some of that out. like how he uses the turret to bounce himself higher so he doesn't need the companion cube. that one took him thousands of tries to get right, and then he only got through the level completely twice. so absurd. that playthrough isn't one take, btw. each test chamber is recorded separately. it would be IMPOSSIBLE to do on one take.

[Gergohogbeido]

nice...

[hug me and die]

i hav portal2,who els does?

[a.baz]

I love this. I love this so much

[illfixthatone]

My son loves portal and love making breakfast.... Coincidence? me thinks not.

[cowscankill]

I love this. I love this so much.
Now someone needs to make incendiary lemons. Shall I be first?

[AndyGadget]

 
Would an exploding carrot do?

[cowscankill]

Ah well... it has to be Lemon.

[St Jimmy]

But don't make combustable lemonade. That would be counter-intuitive

[Tomcat94]

When life gives you lemons, GET MAD!! GO TO LIFE'S HOUSE AND BLOW THEM UP WITH COMBUSTIBLE LEMONS!! YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, I'LL HAVE MY RESEARCHERS MAKE COMBUSTIBLE LEMONS, AND BLOW UP LIFE'S HOUSE!!

God, I love Portal 2.

[illfixthatone]

Hahahaha

[cmcgee-1]

I haven't finished it yet (much less gotten to that part), who says that, was it Wheatley?

[St Jimmy]

No. Play the game all the way through, and then find a friend or extra pair of thumbs and do the co-op. This game is friggin' epic

[cmcgee-1]

I'll play it with my brother. And it is EPIC! I love it! By the way, I take it you're not going to tell me who says that?

[St Jimmy]

Erm, no. Either you're not up to there and you'd get confused, or it would ruin a hilarious point in the game

[cmcgee-1]

Okaay, I'll wait :)

[St Jimmy]

Yeah! Take the lemons!

[cowscankill]

Love love, best speech in the game.

[ilpug]

does it go "oh dear" when you crack the shell?

[Delo97]

And what about IPFs?

[TheKnotTier]

this was a triumph, im leaving a note here, HUGE SUCCESS!

[MidnightSon]

Great idea ! And nice execution.

[Aperture]

This is how we must serve the employee's eggs from now on.

[kabakaboyz]

i soo reeb cml loolz