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Now a brief message from security from crash and nerf herder.

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He never gets tired of that, I swear. Thanks, Alex. I've not heard that 12 times today.

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All right. How's everybody doing today? So my name is crash. This is nerf herder. And we are

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goons but we're also members of the 501st legion. So that is a costuming group if you don't

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know about where we have to build screen accurate

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armor or screen accurate costumes for the bad guys. And we thought for you guys we'd talk a

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little bit about how the costumes are built and the technologies involved. Because look here,

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this is all about learning how to build things, learning how to hack and make stuff. And it's a

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great making and a physical skill to do all of this. So I'll show you a few things and then

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answer whatever questions you guys have. Sound good? All right. So what movie is he from?

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We know Star Wars. Which one?

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The force awakens. What? Transformer. Oh, first order. Did you want to see? All right. So he's

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wearing a first order storm trooper. Now what's interesting about his costume is in the movies

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these are custom 3D printed for all the actors. So it probably costs, I don't know, $10,000 or

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more to do that. Obviously that's not the kind of thing that's going to be affordable for somebody

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who wants to build their own thing. So I'm going to show you a little bit of that. I'm going to

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show you a little bit of what this is. So this is what his costume is. You can see this is just

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the costume of a inimitable force. And so his is actually made using a technique called vacuum

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forming. So who knows what vacuforming is? Yep. So with vacuforming, what you do is you have a

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mold. So for example, for my blaster, this could be a mold for a vacuform. They heat up a piece of

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plastic, drop it down so the plastic conforms to this, and use a vacuum to pull out of the bottom.

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And so that gives you the exact plastic molds.

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So when we get these costumes, these pieces all come as raw vacuum formed pieces that we

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actually have to put together. His is super hard. How many hours? About 120 hours to build.

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About 120 hours to build his because since they 3D printed it in the films, there's seams all

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have to, there's no seams in it. And so he has to glue everything together, shape it, fit it,

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put a thing called bondo on it, sand it and then paint over it again. Now mine's easier because

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it's really old. This is 1977 technology and so all of my pieces are actually raw vacuum formed

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and then these strips here are just designed to cover up the seams. Now the other fun thing is we

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all like to play with helmet electronics. So if you come up and you want to take a look, I have

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fans in my helmet and you can hear all these noises from my chest plate because I have an

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amplifier.

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, let me unsnap here if I can, an amplifier hooked up to my iPhone which is playing background

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loops and does the voice distortion. And so that's how we're actually able to go ahead and do

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that. And there's a bunch of different ways to do it. You can even get speakers that actually fit

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into these mic tips here. So what questions do you guys have, if anything? Yes.

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Come on up. Question? Okay, forgot the question, next. Why do we put so much time into making

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them? Why are you in this room? It's fun. And you learn new skills. Now for us what we do is we go

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out to charity events. We have fun. We have fun. We have fun. We have fun. We have fun. We have fun. It's a

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events, other public events. We do hospital visits to help sick kids. So it's actually a

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charity organization. For the grownups in the room it's like the Shriners except we dress up as

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stormtroopers instead of wearing silly little hats and driving around in little cars. At least

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that's what he told me. Yes? So voice distortion, there's two techniques that most people use.

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What I have is an app on my iPhone and it plugs in and I have a wired headset and that iPhone

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app actually does the voice distortion. It's called Trooper Talk and it also has the background

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loops. The other thing is called an iCom and it's a dedicated electronic device that, you know,

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before iPhone days they mostly came up with and that also does the background loops and the voice

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distortion. Yes? How much? So the cost in vacuum for me is of building the walls?

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And then having the actual vacuum change. Once you have your mold, the sheet of plastic is $5 or $6.

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So you can make out a lot of them very quickly once you've got the cooling. Versus for the

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printer, it's nice because you can print anything. But, you know, once you build the mold it's only

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going to do that one thing. A lot of people will build their own vacuum form tables with an old

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heating element out of an oven and a shop vac. So, I mean, you can build those very cheap. So it

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sort of all depends on if you want to buy something.

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Or build it all DIY. Okay. I can just yell louder, too.

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Any other questions? Yeah. Question. Can storm troopers go in water? Well, it's all plastic, so

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probably. But I can barely walk and I don't really want to try and swim. Any other questions?

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All right. If you guys want to come up, I can let you see a piece or two. We can do some

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pictures. Thanks for your time.