Cyber Tank Girl #AdafruitWeekendProject #ElectronicHalloween
Last year Becky Stern made a kickass Tank Girl costume. This Halloween, you can too with this cyber-tastic Adafruit tutorial!
Electronic Halloween Twenty Fourteen! I’ve admired the comic character Tank Girl for ages, and this year I wanted to update her post apocolyptic Outback look for the 21st century.
This guide covers the different elements I used to make this costume, linking to relevent tutorials where applicable.
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