A little overview of the augmented hammer for a Ramona Flowers costume I made for Halloween in 2014. I'm going to be upgrading this project with some new features for Dragon Con 2018.
This was a quick prop build for a Halloween party using hardware I had around my studio - a LilyPad Arduino, NeoPixel strips, and LilyPad Button. The bulk of the build was fabricating the hammer. I carved it out of foam and fiberglassed it for durability. The strips were embedded in the hammer before fiberglassing and shine through the resin for a glowing effect.
Future idea of this prop will be making a detachable pole for shipping/traveling with and to upgrade the electronics to include motion sensing and a sound effects component to mimic the hammer reveal from Ramona's fight scene in the film.
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