Sandbagger's Iron Man builds - Now in STEEL.

[BuildsByBaz]

Nice to see your built incessantly improving.

Ta mate.

Drilled out the steel chest plate so the sound can get out the front through the tech. Fitted speaker with a foam buffer for better acoustics. Wired it into the connector for the 12V battery pack. Now to tidy it all up and fit it into a small project box. All I need to do with it then is run the microphone cables out to a 3 stage audio jack for the helmet.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

AAAAARRRGGHHH!! I broke it again!

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Fixed the broken winding cable mechanism.

Apart from adjusting the sound effect itself via code, everything else now works. The micro-switch at my chin is the actuator for face-plate up/down relays. It has a small plastic straw trimmed and tuned to the right length for my chin to activate it with a deliberate facial gesture.

As the face-plate locates in the down position, two other micro-switches activate the camera, video glasses inside the face plate, the illumination in the eyes and the ground wire to switch on the microphone. Tripping the chin micro a second time reverses the geared motor in the helmet, raising the face plate and breaking the circuit on everything else.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Update:

Here I have a protective transport case for the Iron Man helmet with some interesting history. This case was given to me by a friend who's father was a war correspondent in the Vietnam war. This was his camera case he carried during the conflict. I've just finished restoring it a bit and making it ready to keep the helmet in.

Having a reshuffle. Using velcro tabs to secure and route loose wiring.

ST-Link velcro'd in position for easy access to plug the computer into the suit and change parameters in code without having to pull everything out of the suit. It's just inside under the edge of the breast plate, and though visible from the side, it doesn't look out of place.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Using fabric glue ( I don't trust the adhesive on the velcro) I'm fixing tabs all over the undersuit to route the wiring. This way, the wiring is in place when I suit up. Just bolt the shell over the tip.

 

[RobotChicken]

What are you going to do when all those kids flatline from the shock of seeing a real Iron Man walk into their ward? This is coming along spectacularly!

 

[BuildsByBaz]

What are you going to do when all those kids flatline from the shock of seeing a real Iron Man walk into their ward? This is coming along spectacularly!

Oh I've already thought of that. There's a defib kit in the chest of the suit. Just connect jumper cables.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Interrupted the ground wire for the voice changer with a second switch from the 12V battery. This way I can switch the arc reactor and the VC on and off separately AFTER suiting up. Used a standard old household light switch.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

To clean-up the muddy voice mix, trial and error incremental adjustment of the code. Background static will be next on the hit list.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Kind of ran out of things I can do on the suit last night. Got to get a couple more things when business resumes after Easter. In the meantime, I thought it might be fun to chop up my wife's vinyl makeup bag and paint it up to cover the surf brand in the middle of the wetsuit chest.

All painted up. Will attach with velcro so I can wash the suit without destroying the art.

Wifey is sewing up balaclava and gloves in metallic lycra to hide the gaps between armour sections. Balaclava will also pin my ears flat, making it far less painful getting the helmet on and off.

Both gloves done and perfect fit! I'm a lucky man to not only have a wife who puts up with my crazy projects, but puts her talent and time into helping me with them!

Now worn under the gauntlet armour, all exposed skin is covered, adding to the illusion of a full metal gauntlet, while maintaining maximum flexibility and range of motion.

I feel kinda funky posting this. Gimp funky. This is the kind of cringe-worthy stuff that is making me fear going to my first Comicon and encountering grown adults dressed in full-body lycra. Just having it on my head makes me want to shudder. The things we do for the kids hey? Anyway my skilled wifey spent all day sewing this stuff for me. The ears are flattened against my head so they wont get caught on the steel helmet and the shiny material will cover the gap between the neck and the helmet. Functional.
Cue the clever comments.....

Keep it clean there are kids on these forums.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

All you will see of the balaclava is below the helmet.

 

[Jme]

You.....there was a.....nope, got nothing clean to say.

Except that I have been following this thread for a long time SB and just want to say thank you.

Amazing work done for an amazing reason by an amazing guy.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

You.....there was a.....nope, got nothing clean to say.

Except that I have been following this thread for a long time SB and just want to say thank you.

Amazing work done for an amazing reason by an amazing guy.

God bless ya mate! My thanks go to all of you at the 405th who have supported and encouraged me. Couldn't have done it without you. Starting with Robo3687 and JFCustom and Sharkhead's pep files and all the way down through everyone's suggestions and advice along the way.

SB

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Adverting banners going up in the shops. 12:00 noon until 3pm.

 

[RobotChicken]

Emperor Ming from "Flash Gordon"!!

 

[BuildsByBaz]

To transport the suit safely I thought I'd make some shipping boxes out of wood. I got as far as the largest one for the legs, then gave it away as excessively expensive and time-consuming. Not to mention my joinery is crap.

I'll finish the leg box and the rest I bought for a fraction of the cost, INCLUDING a matching 250kg trolley!

All tooling for suit-up and emergency repairs.

Bits of the suit in boxes.

This box is a little large for the remaining bits, but I think once the wetsuit is in there wont be masses of room left. All i have to do now is finish that custom wooden box for the legs.

I'll see if I can re-shuffle once the packaging is sorted out, then I might be able to return one box for a refund.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Big day today. Finished the box for the legs.

My friend James sent me a picture letting me know the repulsor tech was finished. He's been slaving all day on them. Guess who got in his car and sped to the other side of Canberra tonight?

Here he is hard at it connecting repulsor tech.

Ready for a full test. Videos next post.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

 

[RobotChicken]

Maybe put an off button somewhere on the gauntlet so you're not inadvertently activating the repulsor every time you bend your wrist back. Perhaps a second switch on the inside of the wrist similar to the one on the backside so you bend your wrist all the way inwards to enable/disable repulser mode, and then the existing backside switch activates the repulsor only when its enabled.

 

[BuildsByBaz]

Thanks mate. No real need though. I've positioned it so that activation is a deliberate action only, at the very extremity of the handplate's open angle. All other normal movement doesn't even come close.

SB