OK so I’m a total newbie here, I’ve been interested in this site and the work that’s been going on here for years. I just never joined until i started my little project. With that said it’s you guys that have made it possible for me to build this prop for my son. You all have laid the ground work for me to follow. So to all of you on this site, Thank you for all of your hard work and inspiration.
So to start out I used the pdf files and scaled them to me sons dimensions in cad. I also use those files to make some drawings for pieces that needed to be made of metal, Like the wand, the bumper and the motherboard. I enlisted the help of a friend of mine who has a c.n.c. plasma cutter to burn them out for me. From there I printed the scaled drawings out on large sheets of paper and cut out some templates. Next I used those templates with some poster board and a cake pan to make a model of the pack.
After the paper model was done. I reinforced it with fiberglass and resin. Then sanded and smoothed out the details with bondo and spot filler. I even got a little help out of the fan boy.
After everything was made solid we took a trip to the hardware store and picked out some detail parts, pipes, hoses, paint and some odds looking nick knacks. We bolted it all up and painted it.
From here is where I started to change my mind on what the finished project would be. When we started it was just going to be a hollow pack with no lights and sound. You know just like a toy gun or some thing to play with but I seen some post on here about using arduino uno’s to run the lights and sound. So I started on putting lights into the pack. That’s where things started go down hill. I’m no programmer at all so I relayed heavily on this post. Martinus' pack with arduino code and circuit - #31 by Martinus - Proton Packs - GBFans.com
After failing to get Martinus design to work, Which is total my fault because of a lack of knowledge. Here is the message I keep getting when i try to verify the code.
Arduino: 1.6.5 (Windows 7), Board: “Arduino/Genuino Uno”
Build options changed, rebuilding all
C:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avr-g++ -c -g -Os -w -fno-exceptions -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-threadsafe-statics -MMD -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L -DARDUINO=10605 -DARDUINO_AVR_UNO -DARDUINO_ARCH_AVR -IC:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino -IC:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\variants\standard C:\Users\owner\AppData\Local\Temp\build5901489877879577526.tmp\warren_pack_martinus_code.cpp -o C:\Users\owner\AppData\Local\Temp\build5901489877879577526.tmp\warren_pack_martinus_code.cpp.o
warren_pack_martinus_code.ino:11:23: fatal error: FatReader.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Error compiling.
On top of this I ordered a wave shield from adafruit and I cant seem to get it to work at all. Just bad luck I guess.
After dealing with this I almost gave up until I saw this video on youtube of david-germany’s girly mini pack for he’s daughter.
This build is epic and I want to be able to give my son the same thing. So I’ve started over, I just ordered a pack blaster from here which just arrived last week. So I’m asking for some help from you guys and see if there is any one out there that can help me finish this pack before Halloween. I would forever be in your dept if you can help me out here. This is the pack as it is today. I would like to keep the arduino for the lights and use the packblaster for sound. Any ideas?