2011 Costume: Steampunk Ghostbuster

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This year's costume reused (with several modifications) the backpack from my steampunk Frankenstein Monster costume. I took a month off from work to build the ray gun, and enlisted my friend to do some circuit building and arduino programming. The backpack smoked, there was a nixie tube countdown, a custom mixed audio track, the gears turned, the green on the side of the gun is a plasma disk, and it shot a rotating laserbeam. The barrel was supposed to Gatling around some green cathodes, but something went wrong with the 800+ volts that went to them. I hope to post a video of the thing in action one day. Oh, and I grew the facial hair for the costume.

2008 Costume: Steampunk Creature

After all, the heart is just a pump, the liver a filter, the veins just a series of pipes, how hard could it be to reanimate a corpse using modern (1800's) day science?
This costume included turning gears in both the front chest organ unit, and the steam-powered back pack. The smokestack could produce a stream of smoke, and blood actually circulated through the veins. This costume brought home another win at the Blarney Stone. Sean, pictured towering over me and everyone else, went as a period mad scientist, who was the creator of the magnificent mechanical monstrosity.