Identity, Please! (plus cuff #1)
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Identity, Please! (plus cuff #1)

ByKevin

Identity Disk, roughed out

After a fair amount of banging away at it, I have a reasonable facsimile of the “Identity Disk” for Castor. Fortunately the Tron cosplay/prop community measured and shared the dimensions of the prop, unfortunately that was for 3D printing, and modeling it in 10mm EVA foam offered a few challenges.
But, a couple passes with my sheet metal modeling software and I achieved something reasonable!

Cuff detail

I also got one of the cuffs wired up, after a couple false starts. I finally unthreaded all the LEDs from the already stuck-on silicone casing and wired them together. Still need to couch the casings down with monofilament.

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