February 2013

Goggles

Reactor Goggles

I was searching through DIY project ideas when I found an instructable on how to make an Arc Reactor from misc plastic pieces (Make an Iron Man Arc Reactor). The coiled wire and blue lights were so appealing to look at that I decided to give the new laser cutter down at the hackerspace a try and make a set of lenses that looked like mini ‘reactors’. My color scheme this time was going to be black and neon yellow (my favorite color) which I thought the blue LEDs would complement quite nicely…. It took no time to design the shapes for the lenses in illustrator and manifest the acrylic into two layers that once stacked, gave some depth to the radial design: In itself this looked pretty cool but I still needed to wrap magnet wire around the thin sections of the left most lens. I also needed to…