Let's allow holes for momentary switches and latching switches, cat5 connection and audio out on the flip plate: I also made a slot for my Phone below the flip plate. Left Gauntlet - Creation, sound and control.Ĭontinuing with the planning, let's start with the pepakura file and add a hinge in the print so that it can flip up if I need it to. This is a shot from underneath where the power switch is as well as the recharge port. Using this tutorial, I grabbed an Arduino Mega, an MPU6050, battery pack and wired everything up with 2 Cat 5 connections (One that goes to the helmet Where the mpu6050 will sit, and one to the left gauntlet for controls and sound) I only used half of this model from thingiverse and fitted it with a spot for a flashlight and a servo and an outlet for the wires to go out the lower back.īoth halves are held together with 8/32 screws and nuts. This will be the shell to house most of electronics and power bank. I first ended up fixing the files and printing it out. This model was good for pepakura but not for a 3d print. It took about a month in spare time to fix everything up and resize it all to my body. Then I went to Thingiverse to see what they had and grabbed Predator Shoulder Cannon by makerslabcz.Īfter I had all the files, it was time to get to work and make everything printable. I went to the and into their resources to get a bunch of Pepakura files to start converting for my project. Like all things, we start with the planning. This build will be my version of a similar styled P1 Predator with as many bells and whistles as I can put together. This costume was put together for under 500 I believe. I can't make the costume perfect movie accurate because 1) I am no where near the height of the original actor who played the predator and 2) picture perfect is time and cost consuming. Well not a 1/6th scale costume but rather a full sized one. My late 2019 project I decided to take on was a Predator Costume like the one from the 1987 movie Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Predator armor pepakura files