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How To Make Two Daft Punk Outfits with Helmets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Step 1: Ingredients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Step 2: Suppliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Step 5: Battery Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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Step 1: Ingredients
Quite a few bits and bobs went into the outfits, here's a list of what we used.
Before you start, I'd recommend finding a talented, amazing girlfriend who can sew 100m of fishing wire and 75m of EL wire into two outfits and have the result look just
like the Daft Punk originals. You can't have mine though.
Outfits
1. Two Pairs of Jeans.
2. Two Jackets.
3. One Black Fabric Dye Pack.
4. 65m of EL Wire, cut to different lengths and pre-soldered to order.
5. Four KL10 Power Packs for the EL Wire.
6. Four 1.5m EL Wire Extension Wires.
7. Four 1-3 EL Wire Splitters.
8. 100m of Fishing Wire.
9. Two Blunt Sewing Needles.
10. One Box of Plasters.
11. Four 9v (PP3) Batteries.
Helmets
1. Two Black Box WIred Motorcycle Helmets.
2. Two Black Visors (not street legal in the UK).
3. Two 5m Lengths of EL Wire, pre-soldered to order.
4. Two KH4 Battery Packs for the EL Wire.
5. Two Seeeduino (Arduino clone) Prototype Boards.
6. Two Max7221 LED Control Chips.
7. Two Breadboards.
8. Two 8x8 RGB Common Anode (Cathode would have been better) LED Arrays.
9. Two Handfuls of Jumper Wires.
10. Four AA Batteries.
I will upload the code I wrote for the Arduino that controls the LED array so you can use that too if you like. Even if you want to change the display it's probably easier to
start with something that works already.
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Step 2: Suppliers
We were lucky that the suppliers we used were great, we ordered everything on-line and turned up in good time and good order.
Note, all the suppliers are UK based, which is great for me living in London, but might not be quite what you're looking for. They may deliver internationally, but if not I'm
sure you can find something that delivers to wherever you are.
EL Wire and Accessories
For EL Wire, extensions, splitters and battery packs we used Surelight http://www.surelight.com/ . They're a friendly bunch based up north somewhere. Sheffield I think.
Surelight sell EL wire either by the metre, or in pre-cut and soldered lengths, which is fantastic if you don't feel confident cutting and soldering your own wire. (We didn't).
All the wire we bought was their Super Bright range (2.5mm) in Red (obviously..) and was very high quality. Also they delivered very quickly, within two days from
memory.
In pre-cut EL wire lenghts we bought:
4 x 10m (Trousers and Chests, used all of it)
2 x 5m (Helmets, used all of it)
4 x 3m (Sleeves, used 3, one spare)
4 x 1.5m (Gloves, didn't end up using them in the end, maybe we'll wire them up for Glastonbury).
Electronic Gadgetry for the Helmets
We bought the two Seeeduinos, an Arduino, a couple of hundred jumper wires, the two LED arrays, some LCD displays which didn't get used and the Seeeduino battery
connectors and so on from SKPang http://www.skpang.co.uk . Again their service was great, pretty much for everything delivered next day.
Max7221 and Max7219 LED Controller Chips
We used the Max7221 LED Controller chip in the end, but bought a few of each variety just to play around with. We only had a short time to make the costumes before
the party so I opted for a little redundancy rather than getting caught short.
We bought the chips from Premeir Farner http://www.premierfarnell.com . Prompt delivery, everything worked nicely.
Cheap Black Shiny Motorcycle Helmets with Visors
By far the hardest thing to find. I didn't really want to spend several hundred quid on a helmet that I was just going to chop to bits and ruin. Luckily I found Nightingale
Motorcycles in Rugby on Ebay (they seem to be quite a big ebay seller). They also have a site here: http://www.ngales.com/ .
After looking at a few of their products on EBay I gave them a call and ordered two Box Wired Full Face Gloss Black Motorcycle Helmets, plus two not-street-legal (as I
was repeatedly told by the kind salesperson) 70% tint dark black visors. Again they turned up the next day, roughly ?50 for each.
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And another of it running through most of the final program, it's just missing the game of PONG and a couple of Space Invaders I put in later:
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Comments
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nin434 says:
rtty21 says:
BOSS!
Da_Fudge says:
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bandgeekzak says:
derektroywest says:
Hey dude, I'm pretty sure the costumes were about 400 each, all electronics and stuff included.
tobymac987 says:
derektroywest says:
Hello mate,
It does sound like a lot but I'm pretty sure I bought 70m (it was a while ago now) and we used at least 65 of it. That's about 32.5m per costume.
You could probably use somewhere around 25m per costume, but it really tends to go quickly when you're winding it around and making patterns on the
sleeves, legs, etc.
Good luck!
laurieann says:
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derektroywest says:
finfan7 says:
It would be awesome to put an LED equaliser in the visor of one of the helmets.
agent says:
grrroundhawk says:
finfan7 says:
I concur.
agent says:
I finally have the means to actually do it, I'm finally going to start.
mspark400 says:
hellonfire30 says:
Umm can you put some pictures of the helmets to see how they turned out.
nin434 says:
how much will all of this cost... coz it looks like alot and im not that rich im just 13 years old
wannaburst27 says:
derektroywest says:
I didn't solder anything, instead I just incorporated the breadboards into the final helmets.
bp-builder-24 says:
Would I have to use both the Arduino and the Seeeduino, or can I just use the Arduino?
derektroywest says:
J who says:
Where did you guys get the jacket that looks like theres i need to know please.
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clonaciano says:
how much would be the total cost for the two outfits and helmets with the EL wire and LED. Pleace respond me.
Oh!!! and by the way, it looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
mjlynch712 says:
For the EL wire, how long did each battery last for?
Vables says:
Vables says:
TheSuperSoap says:
I'm interested in building the helmet. Do I need to buy the breadboard for constructing the LED display?
derektroywest says:
TheSuperSoap says:
alright thanks! I'm not good at soldering either, so I'll follow your instructions with the breadboard.
borregotv says:
derektroywest says:
Spartah says:
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SilasR says:
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BeanBot says:
cowscankill says:
00Donut says:
derektroywest says:
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DaftChazz says:
derektroywest says:
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DaftChazz says:
DaftChazz says:
If you can send me a tutorial to my e-mail i'll be very gladd my E-mail is: ge.c_16@live.com.ar Thanks
magicpocket says:
COOL!
Vinicius says:
bounty1012 says:
LinuxBox says:
Splathess says:
Nice! For all who want El wire in the US try http://www.elbestbuy.com
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