For Halloween (Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve) this year I decided to make a lightning cloud hat. This idea came to me after a few other ideas fell thought and literately caught on fire (different sorry, ask me about it sometime).
At first I thought that I would make paper mache clouds using a Sambro hat for the support structure.
https://instagram.com/p/9QWTV7A5YN/?taken-by=funvill
^^ See photo of @Jarrett late night soldering in a sambro hat for reference.
I got some balloons and tied them together, then to the sambro hat. I Flipped the brim of the hat downwards to look more “cloud” like.
I made a lovely smelling, port of paste from flower and water. DELICIOUS !
I started to cover the balloons with strips of paper and paste. I was expecting this to take about an hour but ended up taking closer to four hours and five pots of paste.
By the end it looked more like frog eggs then clouds. It was also too heavy and lop sided to wear.
Back to the drawing board.
I found another hat (“Asian conical hat” (aka edge hat, rice hat, paddy hat, bamboo hat)
Strapped some LEDs strips to the hat with fishling line, then wrote some test code (Yay HSV rotate) to make everything blink
Disemboweled some pillows.
Spay glued the Polyfill (pillow guts) onto the hat
Turned on the power!
Damn I look more like a magic mushroom (or a person consuming psilocybin mushroom looking at a mushroom) on then a cloud.
https://instagram.com/p/9VNZ2ng5fO/?taken-by=funvill
Wrote more code, and more code, and more code.
https://instagram.com/p/9XRSpmA5c5/?taken-by=funvill
Came to realization that I don’t know what clouds look like and I need to go outside more.
I am going to make another version tonight, version 5. I will post the results when I am done. If everything works out I will make this into a workshop for sometime before xmas
This is day 98 of #The100DayProject
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