Mega Man Costume

Step 4 Mega Man's Helmet (Adding LED's)

Tools:
Drill w/small drill bit
Wire Cutters
Soldering Iron
Hot Glue Gun
Materials:
Red LED's
Resistors
Battery Pack
Wire
Switch
Solder
Electrical Tape
Hot Glue Stick

I started feeling a bit frisky... I was looking at images of Mega Man... and thought... I need LED's to make this epic. So I did a little research and found some info here on getting/using LED's. Read more there if you want to see more detailed steps. I went to Radioshack and got some Red LED's and some resistors, since I already had the rest of the supplies this wasn't that expensive.

After doing a couple of tests with the LED's to make sure I could get them to light, I started on my work.

First I marked where I wanted the lights to be in relationship to the ear pieces. Then I drilled two small holes for the LED's leads to fit through (attaching all of this to the frisbee so we can use the helmet in the future... this is getting less and less likely to happen).

I then proceeded to wire it all up. After a couple of tweaks and burns... Everything worked like a champ. It was a wiring mess, so I quickly neatened everything up and taped it down and hot glued it into place.