A very power suit Halloween

posted Nov 1st 2008 1:41pm by Eliot
filed under: misc hacks, wearable hacks

We spent our Halloween dressed as an irate traveler as we flew cross country, but it looks like a lot of people were having much more fun. [flaming_pele!]‘s Aliens power loader is one of the best costumes we’ve seen yet. He built it by referencing a 1/12th model kit and a lot of photos. The final costume is about 80% full size which gets it under their 8 foot ceilings. There’s a video of the suit embedded below. Our love of power suits was documented fairly well in our roundup post this summer. Make found two other related costumes: a Star Wars AT-ST and a generic mech constructed from packing foam. Did any of you dress as something truly nerdy for Halloween?

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tagged: 3d printer, aliens, atst, halloween, make, mech, power suit, powerloader, powersuit, starwars

12 Responses to A very power suit Halloween

arT2 says:

November 1, 2008 at 2:42 pm

yeah, n1

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mykle says:

November 1, 2008 at 3:18 pm

i think my dalek costume qualifies as pretty nerdy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nomadwarmachine/2989765737/

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macegr says:

November 1, 2008 at 4:35 pm

spent so much time building this, i didn’t even make it to the party where i was supposed to wear it. doesn’t get any nerdier. http://badfirmware.org/robot_0.8.jpg

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Reezy says:

November 1, 2008 at 4:43 pm

We went as Futurama this year
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5285/usky3.jpg

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Nipponese says:

November 1, 2008 at 9:51 pm

Would have been cooler if the claws were motorized too. I mean if you’re going to that extent, you should at least make it so the claws revolve.

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dirk says:

November 1, 2008 at 10:25 pm

I was nathan explosion for one party, and then ‘I dunno, like a writer or something’ for another. The latter had a pipe!

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mesinkasir says:

November 2, 2008 at 8:46 am

happy hallowen…

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Joseph says:

November 2, 2008 at 9:54 am

I dressed as geometry.

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wakka_wakka says:

November 2, 2008 at 1:59 pm

i dressed as arthur dent and got countless weird looks from people on campus.

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Evan says:

November 2, 2008 at 9:22 pm

I dressed as a video gamer and sat behind my monitor playing Fallout 3.

…I’m so lonely…

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Frogz says:

November 3, 2008 at 2:20 am

hm, last year i hollowed out a 15 inch crt monitor and reattached the shadow mask and front glass to the inside, the mask was possible to see out but not in, obviously i also put some aas to power the power led, stuck the entire thing on my head, foam rubber to pad my head, damn this took a long time to type on a phone