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Coating with UreCoat

I tried something a little different this afternoon. When I was at MakerFaire NYC last year, one of the Smooth-On reps was kind enough to give me a sample kit ...

Filament to Foam: Molding Flexible Parts

One of the many things that got taken care of today was the shoulder pads for the pilot costume – specifically, the process of converting the 3d printed version to ...

Revisiting the Data Knife

Alllllright. I haven’t updated this in a while. My excuse is that I have been working a lot, and also I just bought a Chinese K40 laser cutter/engraver that I ...

Futuristic Ninja Bullshit

I’m actually finding modeling up the various pieces of equipment to be pretty good practice / training for learning the ins and outs of 3d Studio Max a little better, ...

A Matching Shoulder Set

First shoulder pad printed, second shoulder pad modeled. I’ve done some light sanding to start blending the seam on the pad together, but it’ll take a decent amount of work ...

Pilot Shoulder Armor

This evening, I took a crack at getting a shoulder pad model done up. It was a bit more complicated than I initially expected, but I’m satisfied with where it’s ...

Hours of Printing Later…

Progress on the Smart Pistol. I can’t tell you guys how happy I am that everything seems to work and fit together pretty much exactly as expected. I’ve even got ...

THIS is a Knife!

So this morning, I stumbled onto Robb Schoberg’s portfolio and discovered a hi-res model of the Data Knife used in Titanfall 2 that I wish I had access to before. I ...

Finished Data Knife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01RfFmuc26k The data knife is done and dusted! Though I’m probably going to make a second version to try a few other painting ideas. The carbon fiber texture was painted ...

Data Knife Assembly Guide

I’ve had a few messages requesting a better explanation of how the data knife goes together, so I sat down with a spare print of the handle and photographed the ...

Silent, but Annoying

Well, if you’ve played Titanfall 1, you know that the most common piece of kit to grace the Mk5 Smart pistol was a silencer / suppressor. I felt it was ...

Revising Gun Sizes

Well, after printing a few parts I’ve discovered that the gun’s model was too big. This was easy enough to correct – just had to scale it down to the ...

Build a Smarter Pistol

So one of the absolutely iconic pieces of Titanfall hardware is the Smart Pistol – a handgun that fires target-seeking bullets. If you’ve ever played Titanfall 1 or 2, you ...

Chambered Thrust!

While I’ve been working on other things (and also, you know, my day job) I’ve had my 3d printer humming along producing parts in the background for the jump kit. ...

Painted Arc Grenade

I masked the LEDs on the arc grenade off, then sprayed the whole thing with a rough silver coat that is apparently intended for hubcaps or something. It gave the ...

A Quick Carabiner

I’ve noted that the pilots all seem to have caribeaners attached to the front of their armor, presumably for ziplining (in the first game) or whatever. After looking on Amazon ...

Data Knife Code and Parts

Since I don’t think I’ve done a proper parts breakdown for the Data Knife yet, I’ll post it here. This model was designed around the following parts: 12BH510-GR Battery Holder ...

Arc Grenade Code

Following up my previous posts breaking down some of the parts for the Arc Grenade and showing some of the wiring, I thought it would be appropriate to share the code running the ...

Grenade Lights and Sound Test

I’ve made a bit of progress on the Arc Grenade that I’d like to share, so let me catch up with a couple of pictures and videos. None of this ...

Jump Around!

While waiting for parts for my printer, I have also been working on something bigger than the grenade – a pilot jump kit. For the unfamiliar, the ‘pilots’ in the ...