Hello all,
It's been awhile since I've last posted here, but im happy to announce a new project - making myself a new and improved face! This is a project I've been having a lot of fun with, and while I posted a few images on discord, it's come far enough to warrant a forum post:
(I guess this is a face reveal?)
My goal is eventually to display eyes on it, as a kind of cosplay mask, and be able to puppet them around.
For the physical, non-electronic side, I found a cheap full face respirator and window tint online, applying the tint to the respirator, giving it that decently opaque appearance. The led display is two 8x8 neopixel mats I found on amazon, taped into place with electrical tape. You can still see out fairly well while wearing it, suprisingly, even in low light conditions.
The brains are a pi pico on a portable power bank, which is housed inside of an altoids tin wrapped in paper towels for insulation (some things never change, such as my love for using mint tins in projects). The images to be displayed on the face are first run-length encoded into a series of arrays, then stored inside of a larger data structure to address the individual frames as needed. The image below uses random array of RLE values.
I'll be excited to update more!
It's been awhile since I've last posted here, but im happy to announce a new project - making myself a new and improved face! This is a project I've been having a lot of fun with, and while I posted a few images on discord, it's come far enough to warrant a forum post:
(I guess this is a face reveal?)
My goal is eventually to display eyes on it, as a kind of cosplay mask, and be able to puppet them around.
For the physical, non-electronic side, I found a cheap full face respirator and window tint online, applying the tint to the respirator, giving it that decently opaque appearance. The led display is two 8x8 neopixel mats I found on amazon, taped into place with electrical tape. You can still see out fairly well while wearing it, suprisingly, even in low light conditions.
The brains are a pi pico on a portable power bank, which is housed inside of an altoids tin wrapped in paper towels for insulation (some things never change, such as my love for using mint tins in projects). The images to be displayed on the face are first run-length encoded into a series of arrays, then stored inside of a larger data structure to address the individual frames as needed. The image below uses random array of RLE values.
I'll be excited to update more!