"Bob" as "Klaatu" For Halloween

Factual Questions
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For those of you who havn’t me him, this is Bob:

This Halloween, what I’d like to do is insert a small bar of sequentially flashing LED’s in the gap of his eye-slit, so he’ll look a little like Klatuu from The Earth Stood still.

So here he is with the visor closed (both the bottom and the top part of the helmet are hinged):

And here he is with the helmet visor open:

And there’s also a third part:

So guys, is there an LED “bar” that I can mount inside the helmet which will flash sequentially and work with a small battery?

Thanks!!

Q

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I hope you get lots of suggestions.

Allow me to be the first —> http://www.amazon.com/Knight-Riderz-Sequential-Flashing-Smoked/dp/B002TW6AME

http://www.chromeglow.com/catalog.asp?prodid=634711

You may have to modify but it looks doable.

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How are your soldering skills?

The nice Evil Mad Scientists have exactly what you need:

But some assembly is required.

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Yeah, I can solder. (Used to have to do it a lot in my old rock 'n roll days). I just don’t know if i want to be that fancy with it, buck.

I did just put my hand down inside and down his helmet, and there at the bottom of the neck is a round piece of tin exactly the width of the neck, like if you wanted to stick a candle down in there, you could, but then you’d have t deal with all that candle wax, plus the fire hazard.

We’d be there for the trick or treaters, of course and I kinda thought they’d relate to the electronics of the led’s, rather than a light bulb or candle, which one usually finds inside a pumpkin. So now I know that I wouldn’t have to actually mount anything, just set it up high enough to show through the visor. Just get something battery operated?

To keep him safe, we’d set him right in front of the door outside.

Anyone got any some other ideas for that theme? I’ll be in medieval dress - maybe see if I can do the black knight of bridge security from Grail.

Thanks, you guys!

Q

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Yo, Q, that looks more like Gort than Klaatu. Gort was the robot and Klaatu was the Michael Rennie character.

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In the film, Q speaks to Gort using his iPad

Gort?.. ummm Gortie?.. Sorry I mistook your name and caused you to blow the shit out of everything earlier, but ol’ Klaatu? He’s way short of breath and he wants you to *barada his nikto * at your earliest convenience.

Also ummmm Gort, I know you’re really great at multi-tasking, so if you can squeeze meaaaaaaaaaaaoiiiii!!! FIT!!!FIT!!! me in too? Uh, that’s kinda the way we talk. You’re not supposed to take it literally… I don’t really know why; you’re just supposed to somehow know that, I reckon.

So if you’d do my nikto when you barada his, it would just totally blow me aw—[COLOR=“Red”]WAIT!!![/COLOR]. I mean, I’d be very grateful.

Thanks, Gortie and I’m the one down here wavin at ya in the, uhhhh button-down collar shirt. See me? Yeah, yeah Gort. I see you waving at me, too. Right. Yes Gort, that’s right; we’re now both waving at each other.

What’s that, Gort? Um … Errmmm, no Gort, that isn’t a parasite on my back.

Thanks, Zeldar, for setting me straight! :slight_smile:

Quasi

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Will Bob also be passing out free samples of Enzyte to passing trick-or-treaters?

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Heh! If he did have some Enzyte, it wouldn’t do him any good, John. That thing’s mummified in there for sure, don’t ya reckon?;):slight_smile:

But we are thinking of rigging him up a little tray to lay across his 90 degree arms for the candy. Also wanna play some WoW music as background.

Thanks

Q