#convention season
Last convention of the year babey!! Table A308 at the Fan Expo Holiday Market in Toronto today only!! I’ve got all my current spell stickers and whatever is left of my online stock ❄️ thank you all for an amazing year!!
Wheatley is in his last few days before his first convention!
Wheatley has been painted and reassembled, now with handles. He was re-balanced after the addition of the handles and final electronics placement. We also cut the poles of the companion cube so he will be able to fit through a 6ft door. We just have a few more animation scripts to finish, a little bit of wiring to do, and to configure the Pi to auto-boot.
Our main focus now is finishing the Portal Gun, as without the Portal Gun we have no way of controlling Wheatley…
The center rod now has lights for each end, either blue or yellow depending on your selection. This is accomplished by mounting four high brightness leds (two blue and two yellow) in a plastic end that mounts securely on the end of the acrylic rod, which was sanded to refract light better.
We painted all black parts of the gun inside and out–those portions were made of blue pvc and formed the ‘nose’ of the gun with pvc and epoxy putty. The front shell of the gun was made with EVA foam and gaps were filled with silicon filler. All the electronics are in the gun and the battery life with the lights on was tested and ran for four hours without issue. We also did this with the companion cube, which lasted for a similar amount of time.
What we have left is to finish assembling the back shell, paint them, and attach them to the main body with velcro. We also have to mount the interior lights and OLED screen and update the software to auto-boot. We also ordered a transparent plastic tube that should be in by Wednesday to replace the one we attempted to make, which frosted up when we heated it to bend it.
For the human side of things, the orange jumpsuit and long fall boot socks have arrived. All that is left is to add the Aperture Science logo onto a white tank top. With the limited time, we’ve decided to wait on the full Long Fall Boots. Those will be done for next summer’s convention (or even possibly one at the end of August).
