Author Topic: So, I was Pac Man for Dragon*Con 2017... (Read 4033 times)

saint · « **on:** September 12, 2017, 11:42:09 am »

I did a PacMan I'm pretty happy with. I'm wearing a PacMan maze suit/tie, and made a paper mache Pac Man head to go with it. Yellow shoes, socks, and gloves, and a PacMan belt buckle. I then used a Wav Trigger sound board, portable speaker, and rigged up some wiring to miniature buttons in my glove. Snaked the cabling from the glove up my sleeve with a Cat-5 cable that I could disconnect to keep the glove and the rest of the system in my inner suit pockets separate for managability.

When I pressed my first finger and thumb together, I made the wakka wakka sound. When I pressed the second finger, the PacMan death sound. The third finger played PacMan fever. The fourth finger had volume up and down buttons.

I topped it off with a glowing, color changing ghost about a foot off my body via a transparent PVC pipe, with styrofoam balls to represent maze dots on the pipe, illuminated from within with blue LEDs to give them a bit of a glow.

The whole effect was a 3D PacMan costume with lights and sound. Was pretty happy with the results and got lots of photos.

Starting with a brief video:

saint · « **Reply #1 on:** September 12, 2017, 11:44:56 am »

And some pix:

yotsuya · « **Reply #2 on:** September 12, 2017, 11:45:36 am »

Oh my God - awesome.

Titchgamer · « **Reply #3 on:** September 12, 2017, 12:32:52 pm »

LOL thats bad ass!

I have one of those ghosts to

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #4 on:** September 12, 2017, 01:10:53 pm »

Pretty awesome man.

pbj · « **Reply #5 on:** September 12, 2017, 01:12:48 pm »

Cheers to limitless self confidence.

opt2not · « **Reply #6 on:** September 12, 2017, 01:15:53 pm »

Quote from: pbj on September 12, 2017, 01:12:48 pm

Cheers to limitless self confidence.

A full covering mask does wonders to self confidence.

Nice one saint, I think this turned out pretty classy.

gamepimp · « **Reply #7 on:** September 12, 2017, 01:51:57 pm »

Looks great Saint!

That must've taken quite a bit of time to put together, especially with the lights and audio.

nitrogen_widget · « **Reply #8 on:** September 12, 2017, 02:23:15 pm »

Dig those crazy threads.

Slippyblade · « **Reply #9 on:** September 12, 2017, 04:07:20 pm »

I wanna wear that to work!

8BitMonk · « **Reply #10 on:** September 12, 2017, 04:29:18 pm »

That turned out amazing, great work!

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #11 on:** September 12, 2017, 10:55:44 pm »

So the suit.... did you get that made or has Men's Warehouse suddenly gotten way cooler?

ark_ader · « **Reply #12 on:** September 12, 2017, 11:24:12 pm »

Wow that is amazing!

05SRT4 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 13, 2017, 02:55:00 am »

Great job on the suit and mask, it looks like you had a lot of fun.

Titchgamer · « **Reply #14 on:** September 13, 2017, 03:39:34 am »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 12, 2017, 10:55:44 pm

So the suit.... did you get that made or has Men's Warehouse suddenly gotten way cooler?

The suit is buyable, seen them before.
I wanted a tie but couldn't find one

saint · « **Reply #15 on:** September 13, 2017, 07:11:44 am »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 12, 2017, 10:55:44 pm

So the suit.... did you get that made or has Men's Warehouse suddenly gotten way cooler?

Thinkgeek.com

(Also Amazon I think)

Ian · « **Reply #16 on:** September 13, 2017, 08:49:55 am »

Great Job Saint.... Awesome look until I saw Didymus a few pics down. That Didymus costume was awesome!

RayB · « **Reply #17 on:** September 13, 2017, 11:04:17 am »

Our Saint is a god too!

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #18 on:** September 13, 2017, 12:12:34 pm »

Quote from: saint on September 13, 2017, 07:11:44 am

Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 12, 2017, 10:55:44 pm
So the suit.... did you get that made or has Men's Warehouse suddenly gotten way cooler?

Thinkgeek.com (Also Amazon I think)

Nice. Can't believe I haven't ran across it before. I know what I'm wearing to my funeral.

whammoed · « **Reply #19 on:** September 13, 2017, 05:05:33 pm »

Hilarious. What a riot it must have been. Very well done.

jennifer · « **Reply #20 on:** September 13, 2017, 11:52:19 pm »

Oh that's so dreamy, like super nerd (Giggle).... Jennifer makes the noise.... waca,waca,waca (laugh), Is this the "secret" project you have been working on for like ever?

danny_galaga · « **Reply #21 on:** September 25, 2017, 09:27:02 am »

Looks great, and truth be told, it is probably the only mask big enough to encompass that big head of yours


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