Wruf’s Costuming Stuff

This weekend I went up to Manchester and my friend Ritchie helped me out with the electronics for Doktor.  What needed creating was a board to drive four banks for LEDs.  The LEDs will fit into the slots in the beak of the mask.  When I speak the LEDs will light up from the back to the front of the beak, sweeping back and forth with each word.

Creating the circuit took most of Saturday including a trip to Maplins to get various components.  We wasted a few hours simply because the audio cable was faulty!  Sunday included another trip to Maplin for even more components that we realised were missing.  Only the LED boards got made up in time, the rest of it is still living on the test board.  I’ll have to go back to Manchester to finish it all up but before then I should have the rest of the costume finished.

Here is a video of what we produced taken on Ritchie’s mobile so it’s kinda sketchy:

I really really need to find some leather gloves though!  I’m thinking maybe some cheap motorcycling gloves might do.  I’ll have to have a hunt around.  I had a look in Affleck’s Palace but that place seems to be half empty these days.  It was kinda sad.