Sandbagger's Iron Man builds - Now in STEEL.

[BuildsByBaz]

Two more arrived. Two to go and we have the lot for the voice changer.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

I've just been asked to appear in costume for a week long charity drive for the Starlight Foundation in Canberra from the 30th April - 7th of May.

I have three guys working on the electronics to get the suit finished so now we have a deadline. Can they do it!?

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Let's suit up!

Finally back in the suit!

It fits!! Looks like that bloody horrible diet worked.....

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Big shout out to all the people along the way who helped out. Electronics, tools, money, advice, encouragement and prayers. It all went towards the project to the point where I ceased to be a fabricator and became a project coordinator.

 

[Harri51]

Wow. the suit looks amazing and honestly the kids will love it. that repulsor will make that armor so top notice. Congrats on all the hard work bagger.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Wow. the suit looks amazing and honestly the kids will love it. that repulsor will make that armor so top notice. Congrats on all the hard work bagger.

Thanks mate.

 

[tabris89]

Let's suit up!

Finally back in the suit!

It fits!! Looks like that bloody horrible diet worked.....

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Honestly Sandy, you make me proud to be a bloody Aussie the kids are going to love it, we are going to love it, everybody is going to love seeing that thing finished good work as always mate, been following since you started. even saw that little stint on Better homes a year or 2 ago lol

 

[Takanuva]

This suit is turning out to be amazing, Sandbagger. Could you imagine Stan Lee seeing this thing? Cosplayers have met him for less, like Sufficiently Advanced's MJOLNIR hammer.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Honestly Sandy, you make me proud to be a bloody Aussie the kids are going to love it, we are going to love it, everybody is going to love seeing that thing finished good work as always mate, been following since you started. even saw that little stint on Better homes a year or 2 ago lol

Very kind of you sir! Thanks for all your, ( and other 405th members) support and encouragement along the way!

This suit is turning out to be amazing, Sandbagger. Could you imagine Stan Lee seeing this thing? Cosplayers have met him for less, like Sufficiently Advanced's MJOLNIR hammer.

Thanks mate. I imagine it may happen one day.

SB

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Whaddya know, the lovely lady at Jaycar jumped me as soon as I entered the shop this afternoon to show me something in their latest catalogue.

That's so nice. Then another shop assistant walked past me and said, "G'day Iron Man!"

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Lots of work last night and today. I've been all over town for bits and flat out in the shed every waking hour. Thanks to James for really putting on steam here. Not much time to go now before the deadline.

Below, James's testing board.

Below, wiring looms to bring power up through the suit to the helmet and hands.

Return bungee cord and microswitch bracket.

Found a good spot for the Piezo.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Chest plate power sorted.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Fiddly stuff today. Ran a tap through all the threaded bolt-holes that were full of rust protection paint. Painted a housing on a repulsor, installed another microswitch on the second gauntlet hand-plate. Connected all the wiring harnesses to power.

Just waiting on a couple of devices now.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

SOOO EXCITED!!! A random stranger from a forum and I have been working together for months to bring electronic hardware in from China. Now I have a full set here and he has a set upstate. He has put it all together and developed command code to control it. Now he is sending me code, software and diagrams instructing me not only how to assemble it all, but how to code in the software and control instructions.

My head is reeling because this really is difficult for me to grasp, but his step-by-step instructions so far have been easy to follow and everything seems to be going smoothly. Normally technology and I are very bad bedfellows. I could not progress at all in this direction without such help.

I can't tell you how excited I am to get this working! The beauty of doing it this way is that I get to build it and code it up myself, giving me more hands on satisfaction rather than just getting someone else to make it and post it off to me.

All software is now downloaded. Tomorrow I pick up some final components then tomorrow night start hooking it all up.

Behold, Iron Man's voice changer module! Soon to be installed!

 

[BuildsByBaz]

I got all this soldering done in an hour tonight. Under the pump!
This is the wire I used because the stuff linked earlier at Jaycar I already have it and it's too thick.

I bought a couple of metres of this stuff and gutted it. Perfect size.

Here's the wire birds nests I built...

I had fun as you can see.

Now onto coding tonight.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

My internet buddy and I have been coding and running debugging scripts for hours. He writes them and tells me how to upload them and what to look for. The man has the patience of a saint!

Finally found out that the amp is faulty. Everything else is working perfectly. Lucky I bought two. Ill desolder this one tomorrow night and resolder the spare on. Technology is so frustrating. I'm having a glass of wine.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

After a day up in the Canberra mountains conducting hazard reduction burns, I returned home weary enough that i was wondering if my eyes could even see the minute details I had to solder up tonight.

I couldn't get hold of ViPeR-7 right away, so I went ahead and changed the amp module over to a new one. Powered it up, ran one of his sketches and....

IT WOOORRRRKKKKSSSS!!!!!!! WOOOHHOOOO!!!

 

[BuildsByBaz]

I've been busy tonight hacking stuff and making it better.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Using a microswitch in the top of the helmet to switch the voice changing microphone on and off.

 

[ReClaimer8015]

Nice to see your built incessantly improving.