I made a Daft Punk helmet!

[Monovertex]

In my third year of college, we had a class where we programmed micro-processors and we had to choose a theme for a project that represented a big part of our final grade. I decided to do a Daft Punk Helmet (Guy Manuel's, more exactly).

After a lot of work and spending white nights before the deadline, I managed to build it and here it is:

However, it came out pretty crude and I plan on making another one in my spare time, a better one this time .

Building process:

Spoiler

The micro-processor was an ATMega 324.

If you are interested in other details, just ask!

 

[FireCat]

Pretty Cool Lol

 

[Monovertex]

Thanks Unfortunately, it doesn't fit on my head .

 

[FireCat]

Oh poor you! You should have thought of that before you made that.

 

[Monovertex]

I did think of it, but to make it sturdy enough I had to make it thicker than anticipated. Also, the electronics card and the cables occupied more than I thought they will.

 

[FireCat]

Oh well.. .maybe next time ?

 

[Monovertex]

I wrote a blog post about it, describing the building process in more detail, if you are interested: http://blog.monovertex.com/post/67296663094/daft-punk-guy-manuel-helmet.

 

[thewrongvine]

I had a feeling it was pepakura, ha.

Awesome job man. I will read more in detail of this when I have the time. It looks great, so much better than my attempts with pep building ha.

 

[Monovertex]

Well, from what I read, Pepakura seems to be the starting point for most of these helmets .

Thank you! I am trying to build it again, but I don't really have the time, unfortunately.

Here's a sneak peek, though:

 

[PurgeandFire]

Wow, that is awesome. I thought it was pretty creative that you used those water bottles as the screen.

A shame that you can't wear it. Why doesn't it fit? Is it too small? If it just doesn't balance, then you should just make some complicated rig to keep it on your face.

It looks quality to me.

 

[Monovertex]

It is too small, indeed. I can fit on my head without the wiring instead and the thing is that my head is a bit big, too . It can fit on girls' heads and on smaller guys. It is pretty stable, because I used some kind of isolating sponge that was used in a motherboard packaging. This ensures that the electric circuits are protected as well. Yeah, originally I wanted to vacuum-form the visor, but I couldn't set up a rig in time and I couldn't find any place to do that here, so I just went "screw it" and cut those bottles apart . Glad you like it and thank you!

 

[thewrongvine]

I had the same problem with the helmet I built. After it was done I had to like, from the inside, trim parts and sand things down just to barely fit in my head. And I had already increased the dimensions of the build. Apparently everyone else just had small, thin heads...

 

[Monovertex]

Yeah, tell me about it.

When I first had the finished Pepakura model in my hands, I was like "Man, this is way too big". But after adding everything, including batteries and the electronics card, there was no chance that it would fit on my head .