# Belt Gizmo, not screen accurate, but hey. **URL:** \ **Category:** Fan Props\ **Created:** [September 14, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/belt-gizmo-not-screen-accurate-but-hey/6049 "2012-09-14T17:11:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spengs\_Chick](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/spengs_chick/32/6349_2.png) [@Spengs\_Chick](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Spengs_Chick)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/belt-gizmo-not-screen-accurate-but-hey/6049/1 "2012-09-14T17:11:04Z")
Here’s my [Belt Gizmo](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/equipment/uniform/calculator-circuit-board). It is obviously not “screen accurate” and I still have to sand off the edges a bit, but it is pretty much the final product. I kinda figured it’s 2012 (i’ve got a solar panel and digital read out), and since none of the original gizmos in the movie were ever identical either, I took some artistic license and made one that looked similar, but was totally unique. It also didn’t cost me much to put together (approx. $5.00). I’m also a mom of 2 little ones, so I didn’t have hours to spend on putting this thing together. Most of my supplies I was able to get at the Dollar Store. I used a large solar powered calculator for the base. After taking it apart and being appalled at the lack of circuitry in side, I gutted it and decided it would be great to use as a base. My “nixie tubes” and “error box” are glass beads wired onto the pliable plastic window of the calculator. My motherboard and daughterboard were taken from defunct [motherboards](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/equipment/proton-pack/motherboard) from Mac G5’s and G4’s. I went to my local Mac repair shop and asked for them. They were awesome and gave me what they had (which was way better than rummaging through the trash). I kinda like the pretty blue color of the boards and the circuitry is quite interesting. I isolated the most interesting sections and went at it with my hack saw. It was strangely very enjoyable to do that. The rest of the stuff I had lying around in the house like the black phone cord. The red coil on my daugherboard is from a cat toy. 🙂 ![image](https://discdn.gbfans.com/original/3X/5/c/5c76de276bf09a0b420e14c717416e0394172079.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Zack](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f6c823/32.png) [@Zack](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Zack)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/belt-gizmo-not-screen-accurate-but-hey/6049/2 "2012-09-14T17:29:17Z")
yeah, looks really cool! I like the blue too! ---
**Author:** ![Spengs\_Chick](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/spengs_chick/32/6349_2.png) [@Spengs\_Chick](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Spengs_Chick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/belt-gizmo-not-screen-accurate-but-hey/6049/3 "2012-12-21T03:24:56Z")
Hiya! Well, since Halloween, I’ve made a few adjustments and improvements to my [belt Gizmo](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/equipment/uniform/calculator-circuit-board). Here’s a couple of pics. Note the cool piece at the top with those ceramic rings and copper coils around them. I had originally put that piece aside, but I thought they looked too cool not to incorporate somehow, so there they are. ![image](https://discdn.gbfans.com/original/3X/2/1/2103898467d995e9d9a072e06c5523e15bedd58e.jpeg) ![image](https://discdn.gbfans.com/original/3X/b/3/b3e833fa531fd4e00022ed1b94563f1eb69fb7d9.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Hawkins](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/alan_hawkins/32/4015_2.png) [@Alan\_Hawkins](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Alan_Hawkins)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/belt-gizmo-not-screen-accurate-but-hey/6049/4 "2012-12-21T14:02:54Z")
Well done!