2013 - Foam Iron Man Build

Iron Man suit! it was my first year ever building anything after watching videos on Youtube for hours on end. I had gotten my internship that summer so I had a bit of cash to get started. 95% of it it was built out of foam except the helmet.

I was able to find the foam template online but had to uses a program called Pepakura Designer to separate and print the parts. I think I used hot glue because I didn't know better at the time lol


I also knew I wanted to make the helmet open and close just like in the movies so of course I had to figure that out. I used Arduino to write some short code and rigged it to a switch that controlled the motion. 

 

 

It was bulky and difficult to walk around in but I enjoyed every second of building it. This opened the door to my pursuit of just building things for the hell of it 
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