Daft Punk costume
A friend and I built a Daft Punk costume for Halloween. We 3D-printed, glued, sanded, epoxied, bondo-ed, and spray painted, and made our own vacuum former for the visor. I also tried to build a vocoder into it.
We started from models we found online. After printing came the finishing: gluing the sections together, coating them in epoxy and body filler, and sanding.
For the visor, we built our own vacuum former out of two sheets of plywood to melt and form sheets of plastic.
I also tried to build a vocoder into the helmet, with breadboards as voice filters. It broke before Halloween.
One or two sentences: what you'd do differently next time.
Build sequence
6 steps- 01
Print
Helmet shell and gloves, printed in sections from online models.
Photo needed: printed parts laid out on a table - 02
Assemble
Glue the sections into one shell.
Photo needed: the glued shell, seams visible - 03
Fill and sand
Coat in epoxy and body filler, then sand.
Photo needed: mid-sanding, half filler and half plastic - 04
Paint
Spray silver and gold.
Photo needed: fresh paint - 05
Vacuum-form the visor
Build a vacuum former from two sheets of plywood, then melt and form the plastic sheet.
Photo needed: the plywood vacuum former - 06
Vocoder
Breadboard voice filters mounted inside the helmet. Broke before Halloween.
Photo needed: the breadboard, even broken