Make your Costumes Move

If you really want to turn heads, follow ace costume designer Andrew, who’s an engineer by day and cosplayer by night. His Raiden Cyborg Ninja costume uses a motorised face shield that looks awesome. The major part of his Instructable focuses on fabricating and sculpting the costume from EVA foam using patterns crafted from cardstock.

He created the face shield using two high-torque servos and a Pololu Maestro Servo controller. The microcontroller is programmed to move the two servos simultaneously at the push of a button. He also created a sword and then wired some LEDs in the sheath diffused with a blue Mylar folder to get the right effect.