Batteries seem to last about a day if I forget to turn HAL off.
#Hal 9000 thinkgeek pro
The LED is run by an Arduino Pro Mini and a couple button cell batteries. I’m still undecided as to whether I want to tear it apart and rebuild cleaner, or if I can just live with the imperfections. The label at the top is inkjet printed on adhesive back paper. The lens ring and speaker grill are printed and spray painted chrome silver. The outer frame is wrapped (somewhat poorly) with aluminum tape from the hardware store. Not exactly true to film, but I think it looks very cool. Then I covered the front face with Carbon Fiber patterned adhesive vinyl. I printed the front panels a few times and had nothing but trouble, so I merged the pieces together and printed as one. I also set mine up for a 10mm LED instead of the standard tiny ones for more of that murderous-computer-on-a-killer-space-rampage feel. I designed / patterned the iris to look a bit more like an eyeball than a flat camera lens. My lens sits a little more proud of the face than the original design, but looks well balanced. I had an old overhead projector lens I wanted to use, so I modeled a new Lens Ring and Iris in Solidworks.
Then grabbed a thicker frame and Speaker Grill.Īll the HAL models I looked at were setup to use either the original Nikkor fisheye lense (there’s no way I’m dropping $1000 for one of those!) or a cut up plastic ornament globe (weak sauce). I started with the HAL 9000 model posted by Concentrix.
Never mind the messy desk, I’m busy building random crap!
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