Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder

I made a mask of a BIGNOSE with a light emitting colourful pimple. I used Pongo to make the nose, gypsum to create a mold and then I covered the mold in many layers of foam latex. As a release agent I brushed vaseline directly on the gypsum. Allowed a couple of hours for the latex to dry in between each layer. Then I filled the mold with Flex Foam it by smooth-on, a polyurethane resin that exbands n-times its volume and become a sponge, in order to give a structure to the latex skin. I made a simple microcontroller with an Attiny45 and a button battery, with breakout pins for the attiny so that I can customize it for other uses. I connected an RGB LED and wrote a sketch that makes a sequence of the first 8 RGB colors.

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Pongo sculpt

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placed into a cylindrical box for molding

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De-molding

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Brushing vaseline as release agent

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Layers of foam latex

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Layers of foam latex

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Preparing the two components of FlexFoam-it

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Pouring the flexfoam-it

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When the FlexFoam-it start expanding, the mold must be compressed

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Demolding the new nose

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After cutting away the excess of foam, the attiny45 is placed inside the nose.

HOW DO YOU LIKE MY RGB PIMPLE!?


Files Storage

You can find all files and view, clone or download my website repository at the following address: gitlab.fabcloud.org/saveriosilli