I’ve been working on this for the last few weeks - aluminium parts cut with the Alex’s BruteCNC the wings were supposed to be cut out with the Lowrider3, then sandblasted…
They’re for a dance performance in the next month - I’m hoping there is some professional footage from there.
Unfortunately it wasn’t my week and my Lowrider needs some maintenance, and the air compressor I inherited blew a seal so instead I just marked them out with a sharpie attached to the Lowrider and a sharpie, then used an angle grinder to shape the wings, a scalpel to cut the pattern and then manually sanded it with sandpaper trying not to disturb the edges.
Quite happy with it. - So is my friend who told me he’s ‘been living for the moment he gets to wear superhero wings’
I’m terrible at documenting stuff so the video footage is really bad, and I only have two photos taken with my potato cell phone.
The straps and buckles are REALLY nice too - I have some photos that I’ll try find later.
They consist of two linear actuators, 2 geared motors, 4 brushed ESC controller, 8x AA Batteries, and a 5000mA 7.4v LiPo battery.
They’re controlled with an RC Remote - it’s a bit tricky to use, there’s definitely a knack to it, and a learning curve.
I’m very interested to see how they are going to be used in the performance. - wearing them does very interesting things to weight distribution, especially when the open/close/pivot
