Posts Tagged ‘Antique’
The mechanical cyborg steampunk eye (cont.)
25 Aug
Well life sort of got in the way and it’s been awhile since I last posted…sorry! To continue with the mechanical cyborg steampunk eye, I’m going to show what I applied beneath the eye before I attach it. My goal for the steampunk deer head was to make the cyborg eye light up. I figured while I was at it, a sublit antler would be cool too, but I’ll show that in another post.
I started with a small, single diode, battery operated LED light. Since this runs on a single 9-volt battery, I need to provide a housing for that, as well as a switch. I elected to go with a red push button type switch. I also want the light to be reflected so that it’s amplified a bit. A piece of foil from the packaging of a contact lens seems to fit the bill.
LED light, switch and reflector
First, I added the foil for the reflector behind the cyborg eye…
Reflector in place
Then I ran wires for the light, taped them in place, then went over them with more mache strips to conceal them.
Taped wires
More tape added
Next post, I’ll show the building of the battery compartment…and I promise not to be gone so long!