September, Core Mechanics Fan

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The thing is to put a motor in yourself.

Those characters at the end of a lot of my posts are robot smilies, if you were confused about that. [:]-)

That Bot That Makes Genderless Swears I'm Kind of In Charge Of: @genderlessinsults

Horny Alt: @EternalSeptember

Pan + TransNon-Binary Robot Friend
Pronounsit/its
Married ToKatie @squirrellilly
Favorite WrestlerDARK Sheik https://youtu.be/5RpOuyqASj4
Hey it's just your bot hanging around it's office for #wenbiesday .
Update: I have antennae now.
Killer date nite outfit, btw.

So, building the mask was actually pretty simple, I just chose to take on a project in stressful times, it could probably be done in a day if you had all the stuff.

The Stuff:
1 UVEX Bionic face shield (other face protection is available, I just liked the look of this one)
1 replacement face shield, shade 5.0 (the gear came with a clear shield, which isn't ideal)
2 Flex LED Matrixes from Lumen Couture (other LED solutions are available, these seemed simple to use, and were)
Spray paint (to taste (don't taste spray paint))
Painters Tape
Electrical tape

Past that, it was mostly just attaching the bits together. Removed the visor, painted the helmet to my satisfaction. Marked out where the LEDs were safe to attach on the clear visor, then used that as a guide to tape them to the inside of the shaded visor, and taped the battery packs to the opaque bits of the mask.

All together the materials were about 140 bucks (a friend kindly helped pay for them), everything else was just fucking with the app.

So I've been working on a LED mask for about a month, and it still needs a little more aesthetic care, but it's assembled and works and I do love it.
... I'm not going off at a tangent by saying the Fragile Express logo looks like it has an SS in it, right? Other people also see that?
Katie got me "A little metal friend" for Christmas. It was just listed as a statue on the website, but apparently it's a tiny night-light also. I like them very much.
I love this exact combination of light snow and heavy wind because it means you can see airstreams in real-time and I think that's neat.
tmnt theme; ominous
It's #wenbiesday and I forgot about it until I got home and put my house clothes on so enjoy my pajamas, I guess.