I tried my hand to make my own version of the belt gizmo. I decided that i wanted to make temporary one so i could take my time and get the right parts for my final one. So here is my temporary build. Constructive criticism is welcomed!
Now for some lights
so how did you guys build your gizmo holster?
I’ve seen some custom made holsters, but most (like mine) are modified tape measure holsters.
Ref: http://www.gbfans.com/equipment/uniform/calculator-circuit-board/
Looks interesting - I’m curious how much of the circuit is built by you? I assume that’s just a repurposed CB, but did you add in the LEDs, etc.?
The main board is a hard drive control board for a 20mb hard drive, (thats right, 20 megabytes) The lights were all added in by me. They are controlled by a light chaser circuit bought from http://www.allelectronics.com/ with the leds soldered on to wires and placed randomly throughout the board. the working circuit board is bolted on to the back of the other board and it holds the wires for the leds in place. I am still working on the daughter board. It is actually a wireless card for a laptop. I am still deciding on what to do with it. any suggestions would be helpfull! The cord is an old cellphone car charger.
I don’t know how authentic you want to go, but it’s incredibly easy and quite cheap to just print out the scan of the actual calculator board and affix it to a styrene sheet (.08 works well). You can do the same for the daughterboard. Just depends how much you want it to look movie-specific. Most of it is covered up by the holster, so unless someone looks closely, most people would never know the difference.
That is a project that i will be working on after i finish my proton pack. But i really wanted to take my time on it so it looked good. plus i cant afford the nixi tubes. So i made this out of parts that i had.
I finally finished my belt gizmo. Well almost. I still have a little tweeking to do but i have an emergency appearance to do for a young boy in the hospital so this is good enough for now.
yes that is part of a tape casette. like they say necessity is the mother of invention, and i havent listened to that tape in over a decade. so it was fair game.
As you can see i glued the potentiometer that controls the blinking speed on the side for easy access.
All in all i am very happy with how this turned out. the battery is held in by velcro..thanks for looking!