Comments on: I am Iron Man

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:42:33 +0000

Hi, im not so great with wires and stuff, so i was wondering….. exactly what parts do you need to make it work?

By: Carlitos

Carlitos — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:32:51 +0000

@Camille Wow! Thank you for that very kind comment. I am really really happy to see I could inspire someone into building things. I'll be glad to answer any questions you or your son might have for your creations.

By: Camille

Camille — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:08:23 +0000

Hi Carlos. I am a mother of 2 young boys. Andrew is 9 and is now a fan of yours! He loves Iron Man and tech-y stuff so your video gave him great hope for his future engineering endeavors! Within 5 minutes of his seeing your video on the repulsor, he ran through the house looking for old cameras and computer and electrical gadgets to begin “building” his own! Ha!
Thanks for using your God-given abilities to use and igniting a passion for the same in a young boy!
Blessings to you.

By: Carlitos

Carlitos — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:40:33 +0000

@tommy I would like to improve on it and make a new design that is more reproducible but I have been very busy so it will have to wait. Thanks for the interest and good luck with your gauntlet.

By: tommy

tommy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:40:08 +0000

no, no
sounds great, thank alot for that insight
thinking of outfitting it over with ironman forearm gauntlet
so wanted to know the wiring series/parallel,
great job tho
noticed you put it as “prototype” are you still working on it?
or sumin you put aside now, just curious, thank goodluck with all your other works

By: Carlitos

Carlitos — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:45:59 +0000

@tommy
I’m sorry but I did not draw any diagram for this project.

All LEDs are wired in parallel. The massive resulting LED is the in series with a battery, an appropriate resistor, and a linear potentiometer.

I know this is not a good approach but it works so far.

By: tommy

tommy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:30:13 +0000

hi, sry to drag an old topic back up, but can you send a wiring diagram of some sort over? vietchico at yahoo
thank you

By: patman

patman — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:34:54 +0000

this is so cool. please let me know if you can build one for me =)

By: frankie j

frankie j — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:32:38 +0000

can you use somthing else insted of the street sweeper bristle like a substitute

By: christian zehntner

christian zehntner — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:18:08 +0000

@Carlitos Thank you for the reply. If you find any way of duplicating it i appreciate it for you letting me know. It doesn't have to look exactly like it does in your video, anything close will do as long as it still has the effect with the pentiometer and the lights. But thank you for keeping me in the loop! Christian

By: Carlitos

Carlitos — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:31:32 +0000

Christian,

I’m afraid I cannot really build a new repulsor.

I would love to help you out and sell you the repulsors but the aluminum ring and back plate are very hard to find. They come in very old (and very large) hard drives.

As soon I I find a way of producing them I’ll be very glad to let you know.

Cheers,
Carlos

By: Christian Zehntner

Christian Zehntner — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:02:48 +0000

Dear Carlos,
My name is christian. I am really not very tech savvy but was wondering if maybe there is a way you could make a set of those for me? I know that parts are not very available as you have mentioned, but i was hoping maybe you could come up with something? i would be more than willing to offer you $50.00 per each unit plus whatever the shipping is if you can manage to make another set. Please let me know as soon as you can. Thank you.

By: James

James — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:12:00 +0000

With “Iron Man 2” shooting set to begin on Monday, Robert Downey Jr. was rocking the Tony Stark look at the “Soloist” junket today, where he had an update for MTV News about the plot of the ol’ shellhead sequel.

By: linuxnerd

linuxnerd — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:40:00 +0000

Que repulsor tan fantastico diseñastes!

I grew up in L.A. but was born in a small town in Mexico so my Spanish is still there.

The best part is your use of increasing intensity as you move your hand! And I always love metal in any project.

If I had time, I would have used a lot more metal in my 5 year old son’s suit he wore for Halloween.

You might check it out the slideshow for the Instructables Halloween Contest here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Iron_Man_Suit_with_Tech/

Need to take a bit more video and editing needed in the next few days of suit in action here and more technical information too after that.
http://linuxnerd.wordpress.com/

Hasta luego,
-Enrique

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:15:00 +0000

You need to do a regular current limiting circuit for your LEDs (ie. a resistor in series with your LEDs) and if you want to have the fading effect, you simply add a potentiometer in series with your resistor.

I’ll post an update soon with a more thorough explanation and some diagrams. Please don’t hesitate in asking further questions may you feel the need.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:51:00 +0000

Thats really cool! my bro and i ar trying to build the best ironman costume there is and we had difficulty figuring out how to make the blasters(resistors) thanks. peace out

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:41:00 +0000

Hi, im new to these gadgets and whatnot, but I saw the video and I am amazed! I was just wondering if I need a resistor for each light? And what kind of switch would be good for this project? thanks

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:00:00 +0000

Nicholas,
Because of the nature of the materials I used, It would be hard to make many copies of this prop. That is why I don't think I could sell it.

Phillip,
I used a 100K Ohms potentiometer. Any pot could be used as long as it reduces the current enough for the LED not to light up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:35:00 +0000

Carlos,

What is the ohm-age of that sliding potentiomenter? I see some on ebay 50k Ohm jobbies. Would they work for this do you think?

Phillip

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:30:00 +0000

Hey have you given any thought to selling your prop? or making custom orders? if so please email me Solscud(a)gmail(dot)com