Hi, all.
I seriously tried to search this topic here, without useful results. I have a hard time believing no one's done this, but I can't find any references to it.
Has anyone kit-bashed a bluetooth handset into a batmobile-style batphone replica? So they have a functional phone? Is it even remotely possible? Are those replicas I see kicking around solid resin castings that would be impossible to wire anything into?
Thanks!
RRR
bluetooth batphone?
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Re: bluetooth batphone?
I am on my fourth prototype blinking, beeping, working Bluetooth Batmobile batphone now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFzyGrAZ ... w&index=23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFzyGrAZ ... w&index=23
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Interesting, Mark. Is the handset vacuuformed? Fiberglass?
I'm assuming it's an original sculpt, rather than something you retrofitted, as I thought I might try to do.
I was thinking about buying a cheap bluetooth handset and pulling it apart and sticking it in a resin Batmobile phone kit. Maybe not practical - but bluetooth handsets are so cheap now, I figured it would be a reasonably inexpensive experiment.
Anyone else? Bueller?
RRR
I'm assuming it's an original sculpt, rather than something you retrofitted, as I thought I might try to do.
I was thinking about buying a cheap bluetooth handset and pulling it apart and sticking it in a resin Batmobile phone kit. Maybe not practical - but bluetooth handsets are so cheap now, I figured it would be a reasonably inexpensive experiment.
Anyone else? Bueller?
RRR
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Re: bluetooth batphone?
Ah ha, answered some of my own questions by digging deeper in the 1966 Batmobile Message Board. Mark's is vacuformed plastic - at least, one of them is.
Hm - didn't remember that it lit up. Another puzzle to solve!
RRR
Hm - didn't remember that it lit up. Another puzzle to solve!
RRR
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I've made Batmobile batphones in fiberglass, two part resin, as well as vacuumformed plastic--none are easy. I'm making a new buck to accommodate the three lights, the microphone, and the speaker. I hope to mold it (and the base) later this week. The phone itself will be translucent red when completed. We did a test, and the lights looked fantastic!
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***Edited for content.***
My apologies for posting something that sounded like a solicitation.
RRR
My apologies for posting something that sounded like a solicitation.
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Re: bluetooth batphone?
Can you show some pictures of your phone Mark?
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This was prototype number 1:
http://imageshack.us/a/img690/6750/p1040967h.jpg
Prototype number 2:
http://imageshack.us/a/img138/8189/p1110069x.jpg
and Prototype number 3:
http://imageshack.us/a/img46/1822/p1110453b.jpg
Sorry, I don't have photos of the them lit, but this youtube video shows what it looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFzyGrAZ ... w&index=23
I can't wait to show you Prototype number 4; it blows these completely out of the water!
http://imageshack.us/a/img690/6750/p1040967h.jpg
Prototype number 2:
http://imageshack.us/a/img138/8189/p1110069x.jpg
and Prototype number 3:
http://imageshack.us/a/img46/1822/p1110453b.jpg
Sorry, I don't have photos of the them lit, but this youtube video shows what it looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFzyGrAZ ... w&index=23
I can't wait to show you Prototype number 4; it blows these completely out of the water!