What did you do the last time you had three free days? Michael Wilson, a.k.a. Knightmage, made a Goliath costume from Gargoyles. We’ve interviewed Knightmage about his work before, and given his costume history, I’m not surprised to see he put together this intimidating and excellent representation of the lead character from the animated series. He wasn’t sure how he’d pull off the look when he started, but he improvised and figured it out. He says:
The wing frame is Eva foam strips wrapped with wonderflex then fabric. They are connected with pvc pipe inside the suit and are also cross strapped on me to hold them up. The digitilegs are mattress foam attached to compression pants. The feet are eva foam and sandals made into platform shoes with a mattress foam boot then covered in fabric. Prosthetic brow and ears. The horns are eva foam and the makeup is wolfefx.
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Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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