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 Chro's Gaunts, 2014 upgrades on pg 6

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible.
« Reply #50 on: Nov 08, 2011, 07:00 PM »
I don;t have a problem with it. Looks much better and in universe. Now you need a screen or a skin that looks like some type of targeting/tracking screen!

I had done the same thing on my first kit and let me tell you people love it.. Some good apps to use is "ghost radar" "Star track phazer app" and "Detector Gadget". The last one is pretty cool, its a fake geiger counter you can customize and control by how you turn your wrist. So I set it up to pick up explosives or metachlorian count in kids to see if there strong in the force.  They get a big kick out of it.

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible.
« Reply #51 on: Nov 08, 2011, 08:53 PM »
Oh sweet. I am going to look those up.

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #52 on: Mar 12, 2012, 11:17 PM »
Updated the gaunts again. Ditched the medical gauntlet, wasn't ever really satisfied with the look or how it went with the rest of the gear, and the vials kept popping off at events.

Instead went with a very short range knuckle blaster kind of setup. Basic idea being that I don't carry a melee weapon, but having a quick off hand short range weapon would still be nice. I mean, why punch someone in the gut when you can punch-shoot them just as easily?






Same base for the gauntlets from the last update, got some new gloves (the kind with the touchscreen friendly thumb and forefinger (keeping the datapad gauntlet, just have to get used to having it on the right arm). 9V battery box is made from some cut up dead RAM I had lying around, with a receipt tape tube for good measure. I have a power jack on there so I can take the glove off without removing the whole gauntlet, and the lights are triggered by a momentary mini switch near the thumb.

Still needs some finishing on the battery box and maybe some more greeby bits on the gauntlet itself.

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #53 on: Mar 13, 2012, 05:34 AM »
I   love   blinkies!!

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #54 on: Mar 13, 2012, 07:50 AM »
i like that glove light thing............ :rolleyes:

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #55 on: Aug 07, 2012, 07:14 PM »
Done some work on the iphone gauntlet in the intervening time, here be some pictars of the latest setup:






The top is held on by one of the case's catches, a magnetic cabinet latch, and three disc shaped magnets. They do not interfere with the phone at all. The top just lifts off, the phone drops in, and I'm ready to go.

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #56 on: Aug 07, 2012, 07:19 PM »
Very Original, vod. Well done, Your gauntlets continue to provide inspiration on new and creative ideas.

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #57 on: Aug 08, 2012, 02:59 AM »
what you need to do is have sum1 on the site make a mold or sumthing so copies can be made. i'm sure we'd all appreciate an easy (and affordable) way of disguising our earth tech in a way we can access it. ;)

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #58 on: Aug 08, 2012, 08:44 AM »
It's actually really easy, and dirt cheap. The phone case I used came from a dollar store, buttons came from a dollar store calculator, and the magnets came from a hardware store. The other greebs on there are aquarium hoses and valves, old switches, a lens from a disposable camera, bits from an old razor, and a tac rail from an airsoft gun. The only greeb you might have trouble finding is the long 'probe', it's actually an Epi-Pen trainer.

Besides, you don't want yours to look exactly like mine. That would be boring  :D

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #59 on: Aug 08, 2012, 09:24 AM »
I got my gauntlets just how I wanted them...

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #60 on: Aug 08, 2012, 02:54 PM »
I got my gauntlets just how I wanted them...

judging from ur pic: tricked out and scary lookin.  :P

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #61 on: Aug 08, 2012, 03:38 PM »
Thats how I repel waves of fangirls  8)

jk lol[forever alone]

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #62 on: Aug 08, 2012, 03:45 PM »
ya i hear twi'lek girls swarm the mandos at cons 8) (to do list: finish armor. go to con. meet a twi'lek.)

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #63 on: Aug 08, 2012, 04:57 PM »
lol, hey Chro, what kind of Female attention do you get at Cons?

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #64 on: Aug 08, 2012, 06:24 PM »
Loads. Mostly from my wife, Arch.

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« Reply #65 on: Aug 08, 2012, 06:42 PM »
*snort*   :laugh:

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #66 on: Aug 09, 2012, 11:15 AM »
I look at him when he happens to be in my line of sight, does that count?   :laugh:

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #67 on: Aug 09, 2012, 12:40 PM »
lol-about as much as I get

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and more shooty.
« Reply #68 on: Sep 27, 2012, 03:21 PM »
Tweaked the gauntlets again, main changes are adding hinges and relief cuts, dropping the glove lights, and adding more greebs.

Ditched half of the old double overlapping design in favor of a piano hinge with the other side remaining overlapped and secured with velcro.






Glove lights never made it through a whole troop without something breaking so they've been replaced with something much simpler.



LED stuck under a disposable camera lens and wired to a switch. Not elegant, but I like it  :D.

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and less shooty.
« Reply #69 on: Sep 27, 2012, 05:56 PM »
That would make a pretty holo projector with the camera lense....  :rolleyes:

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« Reply #70 on: Jan 28, 2014, 11:19 PM »
Right gauntlet overhaul again!

Fortunately Walmart happens to sell packs of darts:


Tore off everything on the gauntlet, and started replacing the greebs:



And then I covered it in darts:

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and less shooty.
« Reply #71 on: Jan 29, 2014, 09:30 AM »
You are gonna get thing up on every piece of drapery from here to Boston!

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and less shooty.
« Reply #72 on: Jan 29, 2014, 10:56 AM »
Thought of that already, the tips are all secured.  :D

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and less shooty.
« Reply #73 on: Jan 29, 2014, 06:13 PM »
Oooo pretty!

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Re: Chro's Gaunts, now iPod compatible and less shooty.
« Reply #74 on: Feb 01, 2014, 03:27 PM »
thats cool  8) you can never have too many darts

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