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Sharks Helmet For Douglas
About
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Completed
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(R1: 2001)(R2: 2002)(R3:2005)
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Current Owner
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Douglas
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Current Location
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Mountain View, CA
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Materials
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construction helmet, puck, fabric fin, copper, LEDs, stickers
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Features
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R3 has chaotic blinking LEDs for goal celebration
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Douglas wearing his Sharks Helmet (R3) during opening night, 2008. Thanks to jzazzi |
History
Revision 1 (R1) & Revision 2 (R2) of the helmet were fairly short lived and were simply a construction helmet modified with a puck, a fin and some stickers. The brow of the helmet said "PUCK ME" in reflective letters. Sharks logos adorned all sides. While R1 had a stiff, molded plastic shark fin, this was soon realized to be a "mistake" and it was replaced with a more pliable fabric shark fin (hence the R2 designation). The R2 version finally met its demise when Johnathon Cheechoo scored a hatrack and Susi rand down to throw it on the ice. Not a peep since...
Details
The Sharks Helmet R3 version (seen above) also includes a host of yellow blinky LEDs arranged to create a mobile piece of chaos. A battery pack is held internally for providing power (over a year of average home game use).
Controls: On the back is a full on / full off switch. On the left is a pushbutton for 30 seconds of goal celebration! A microcontroller (Atmel ATTiny similar to the Wedding Board Cribbage Peg) controls the time delay and pushbutton circuitry.
Sorry I don't have any more photos, but this is one of the many projects I simply have not documented all that well.
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Susi dressed as Mike Ricci for halloween, wearing (R2) of the Sharks Helmet. |
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