you can't really see it in the pictures, but the shoulder circles are noticeably more green than the other circuits

(we're not quite sure how to fix that)

(Infinite sharpies. o.o)

for comparison, the previous glowing

[whines at internet to load pictures]

and notglitching as rinzler

NICE

bonus tron disk

(their helmet order came in)

Oh man, where did you guys order the helmet from???

daaaaaaamn

BRUH

And that is why we do not have evenings much this month.

(NO COMPLAINTS though tonight was glowy AND productive!)

tronja307020: I sprung for the artfunk one! Super expensive, but I got a strictly-for-fun cash gift, and given we'd already thrown hundreds into buying electrical tape/components (and hundreds of hours into manipulating it/using it)...

(A theater friend and I made attempts to vacuuform, but something was off with our oven design-- it melted the heater before the plexiglass.)

ohhh, well that's cool! It looks so cool! Man, you're making me wish I could rp Tronzler again! This is looking so good!

OMG EVERYTHING LOOKS SO GREAT ;A;

i see that the helmet has a blue light. are you going to wear it with a tron costume or change it to orange-red for your rinzler costume?

crimsonxiphos: It's tricolor LEDs! (With only two colors hooked up, but)

they switch between glowy orange and glowy blue-white at need. c:

THAT'S AMAZING

(I went for the latter in that pic because I had my Tron-circuit t-shirt on )

does that mean you can do a (very localized) blue-flicker?

I could! The color switch is on the bottom of the helmet, though, so it'd require... dunno, a Rinzler facepalm?

Or Katie could probably pull it off via Clu-creeping if we planned the thing in advance.

someone exasperates rinzler so much that he blue-switches just so tron can chew them out

slkdfjsldfj every time I gotta talk, I switch the helmet.

(apart from appropriately monosyllabic glitchy lines ofc~)

perfect

ALSO FriendlyMiGo, having left the thing on overnight, I can confirm that the battery pack lasts awhile! It's still going now, ~14 hours after we turned it on, though I'm pretty sure the lights are getting v. dim.

(Not 100% sure, because it's been dimming gradually over 14 hours and my brain isn't sure if it was ever brighter than this, but I think it was? It's still visible, which bodes well for being able to helmet at the con all day/night on a single battery pack as needed, especially if we don't turn the lights on much in the brighter places/hours.)

this is incredible and you guys should be very proud

These look amazing! Great work!

Much thanks. It's coming along!

nice battery life :|b

of course, everything else only has a half day power...

Oh, wow! These are amazing.

True, true, but having to pack 4 less batteries throughout the day is still a Good Thing.

(still going now, no overheat, but dim enough that I'm gonna call the test. ~18 hours, by the end of which the glow was visible if standing next to it, but not otherwise.)

crystalshard: Much thanks!

So cool!