Incremental Progress
Had a board meeting, so only got a tiny bit more done — upper big teeth and building out the lower jaw a little.
Had a board meeting, so only got a tiny bit more done — upper big teeth and building out the lower jaw a little.
Richard got a great series of photos of my performance, including the wall of streamers. To cap it off, Christine Doyle captured this non-embarassing recording of my performance. You can tell I’m having fun and so is the audience (though you can’t hear them singing along; well over a quarter of the room joined in)….
So like most projects, you start with research. Which in the age of Goggle and the internet makes research very easy. There is no lack of images of the famous cartoon moose online. The original TV cartoon version is all one color brown, a very dark brown, one might even say a chocolate brown. Which…
Monday, still no power, so I took a large bag of parts to work so I could use my soldering bench there. I got leads attached to all but one of the remaining pieces of LED strip for the costume, and finished the wiring harnesses to connect to the power distribution from the upper back….
Reinforcing the rigging harness I needed to stiffen the tail support across the shoulder blades because even the heavy hide I used was too flexible. Fortunately I’ve acquired a healthy set of power tools in the course of working on my townhouse and building both Tiki Dalek and Thinbot, so it only took about 20…
Couching the lighting strips… While the adhesive on the rectangular silicone tubing for the LED strips is really handy, experience has taught me that it will peel off of fabric at the least opportune time, so I should only trust it as basting.I’ve now hand-couched all the LED casing for the cuffs and “lapels” to…