Project: DIY Nuclear Battery Kit
This was a SparkFun product, briefly. Turns out there isn't a big market for artisanal radioisotope photovoltaic batteries. I had to hand-cast all of the rubber gaskets that hold the tritium vials in place, so they were expensive to make. Also, it was BYOT (Bring Your Own Tritium) but even then, there's probably only so long you can poke the NRC.
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/nuclear-battery-assembly-guide/all
Project: Solarpunk/Outer Sprawl Clothes
I made some clothing that incorporated imaginary logographs, fishing net, and composite sail-cloth. The idea was that this was clothing from a fishing village on a newly sea-side part of the outer sprawl.
Printing is spray-dye using laser-cut stencils. Sail polymer is machine stitched, with some difficulty.
Project: Glowing Collar for Chest Harness
This leather chest harness is something I wore for a long time, I made it from heavy veg-tanned tooling leather and it held my sunglasses, wallet, knife, keys, etc. I made a cyberpunk style EL collar for it out of matching leather. I ran electrical connections through snaps, which worked great.
Project: LED Blotter
As a test of the boardhouse's willingness to drill a ton of mousebites, I designed these breakaway LED boards in the style of LSD blotter with the notorious Orange Sunshine blotter art in the silkscreen.
Project: GITS Inhalers
In the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie, club-goers were using these inhalers. They showed up on the Propstore auctions and I saved all of the photos instantly.
I re-drew the label graphics in Inkscape (I still have the vector files for anyone interested) and transferred them onto aluminum spray cans from Amazon using a packing tape toner transfer method. I built the rest from flame-distressed 3D printed parts and a cheap oxygen mask.
https://propstore.com/product/ghost-in-the-shell-2017/three-handheld-huffers/
Project: Lord Canti Head (FLCL)
This was my second Canti cosplay for DragonCon. Made from foam, lasercut acrlyic, PVC pipe, wire, and a curved acrylic screen made by slumping acrylic in a laser-cut frame with a heat gun. I put this together in an incredible time-crunch and re-used the display electronics from my first Canti cosplay. Everything still smelled like paint when I got to the hotel.
Project: Animal Skin Speakers
I made these speakers from natural drumskins in the style of wooden drums. I built the drum shells from oak and welded my own rings to tension the heads. The coils were wrapped on cylinders of goatskin. I used huge neodymium magnets to make them work. Drums obviously make terrible speakers because they're designed to be resonant at a single frequency. They still sounded pretty good for what they were.
The stereo one used a hand carved cross as a cap-touch on/off.
Project: Occult Pokémon Objects
These were some things that I 3D-printed, distressed, and painted to explore the idea of occultism in the Pokémon universe. An engraved Cubone skull and an engraved bone pokéball.
Project: Laser cut leather stitched masks
Leather is an awesome material because it's dimensionally stable and easy to work like wood, but malleable like fabric. I designed and stitched some masks using veg-tanned tooling leather. A classic plague mask and this ornate little deer with carved wooden antlers.
That's probably enough spamming the timeline for now. I'll add stuff later if I find anything vaguely worth sharing. Some of this stuff is on my Instagram which I never use anymore but never got a proper write-up.
Hope you were inspired!
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You are a volcano of ideas!
Nick Poole