Murray Harms of Queensland Australia made an Iron Man suit to wear this Halloween. Check out the motorized helmet in the pictures below and the cool way he used a Protostack board to run the mask and LED’s:
“The Protostack board pretty much controls all the electronics in the suit. The board monitors one input, the Visor Up/Down Switch and drives 2 outputs, the Visor Servo (PWM signal) and the Visor Eye LEDs. Originally I was planning to build simple circuits to do all the controlling, but I was glad I ended up using the Protostack board – it allowed the flexibility needed when tuning the up/down position of the Servo and programming delays into the eyes so that they only turn on after the visor has closed. The Visor Eyes On/Off signal drives a fader circuit, so that once the visor is closed, the eyes fade on – pretty cool.
The ARC reactor has a similar fader circuit wired directly to the on/off switch so that it fades on as soon as power is applied. The Power and Visor switches are mounted on the forearm of the suit.”
Source: Protostack
