How To Make a Green Lantern Ring 145
Malfourmed writes "Step by step instructions for making the ultimate comic book geek jewelery — Green Lantern's power ring. Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner and Alan Scott variations all included. Now someone find me a Katma Tui or Arisia to go with it, and we might just have ourselves a proposal!" The bigger problem of course is that there's no battery available to charge it, so it's just costume jewelry. Anyone have other good costume ideas?
What? No John Stewart ring? (Score:3, Funny)
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While going light on the politicians who are on his own side of the aisle, of course.
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That's what you get when you play a recording of Rush Limbaugh's insightful and biting humor directed at right-wing targets.
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He's often funny with his song parodies, but that might be more of him taking credit for another's work.
Re:What? No John Stewart ring? (Score:4, Funny)
http://chrisdidthis.com/b3ta/run.gif [chrisdidthis.com]
nostalgic .... (Score:5, Informative)
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!
Re:nostalgic .... (Score:5, Insightful)
Of which we have none. The article is about how to make an investment casting. The web is full of them. The library has shelves of books on the subject. I've shown grade school kids how to do it.
This is Slashdot; I was really expecting (hope springs infernal) an article, however shoddy and silly, about how somebody put an LED and lens into a ring to make it give off Green Lantern's light.
Slashdot, reporting on copper age technology; today!
KFG
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KFG
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An LED + Watch Battery will consume very little space. You could fit all of the wiring inside the ring.
Extra-geek points for painting the ring's details using phosphorescent paint and an Ultraviolet LED to make the paint glow
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or
Tritiated polymer (tritium + plastic)
Tritium is good for ~10 years of decent glowing power & in small amounts isn't anything to worry about.
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A number of years ago, a costumer friend of mine made a Lens for a Gray Lensman costume -- bezel crammed full of electronics and LEDs to so that it would light up and ripple colors across its face. It generated a fair amount of heat and was uncomfortable to wear for any length of time when lit up.
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Post Columbian American ball sports. Can't stand 'em. I've played the precolumbian kind in precolumbian courts. Obviously I'm not very good at them though; I'm still alive (they were a winner lose all affair).
Oh, and I've never played double reeds. Maybe this winter I'll make an oboe or something.
My father was a jewelry maker and my mother a ceramicist. They often combined their talents in copper enamel work. From where I'm sitting I've got a clear Nerf(tm) pisto
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And replacing mass human sacrifice of the losing team with a merely embarrassing post-game press conference... that's kind of a major detail.
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This is like an Ask Slashdot "How do I format a hard drive?". Yes, it's something that many people don't know how to do, but it's also not hard to find the information how, and it is quite common. Same goes f
Re:nostalgic .... (Score:5, Interesting)
My ears catch evil's slightest sound.
Let those who toll out evil's knell,
Beware my power: The F-Sharp Bell!
Re:nostalgic .... (Score:5, Informative)
This isn't just a cute parody. This is from an Alan Moore [wikipedia.org] Green Lantern story where they tried to recruit someone to the Corps who lived in a lightless world. The inhabitants had no word for "light" or "lantern", so they translated the concept to that of sound... which these inhabitants were intimiately more familiar with.
The story appears in the collection DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore [amazon.com]. Highly recommended.
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Funniest Oath (Score:2)
"You who are wicked, evil, and mean--
I'm the nastiest creep you've *ever* seen!
Come one, come all; put up a fight;
I'll pound your butts with Green Lantern's light.
Yowza."
Other oaths: http://www.glcorps.org/oa-oath.html [glcorps.org]
Where's the LED? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Either get a Sony laptop battery or... (Score:4, Funny)
Attached a wire to the ring, stick the wire into the wall outlet, and get the charge of your life!
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Unless I'm mistaken, the only way it wouldn't be costume jewelry is if it actually gave you superpowers.
(Or actually had jewels in it I suppose.)
cool to make, but cheaper to buy (Score:5, Informative)
Re:cool to make, but cheaper to buy (Score:5, Interesting)
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My point is that one may not need that so
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By the same logic, a comic book serves no purpose aside from establishing geek cred, which is then taken away by virtue of having bought it.
Some people just don't have the time, inclination, equipment, money, or skill to make things themselves. There's nothing wrong with buying thi
Geek Cred? (Score:5, Insightful)
If someone really feels this need to prove their self to some sort of community through 'cred', they need to get a life...
If someone is putting presure on them to do things for 'cred', that person needs to realize that those people are not their friends and are just using them...
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Hi, my name is LihTox, and I buy pre-made computers. (Or maybe laptops don't count?)
It's important to know that, if you do not build your own computer, then you are not alone. Join the NGEA (Not-Geeky-Enough Anonymous) today!
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Unless "building your own" involves a soldering iron, I'd say there's very little skill necessary to build a system these days.
Honestly, I don't know why anyone bothers - it's not exactly complicated to snap together commodity components these days, and it isn't like it's hard to find a good shop that'll build you exactly what you want AND d
Battery Casting (Score:4, Informative)
And how about some chips in there, too? A socketed LED, swapped out for a recharger? Swapped out for a photoreceptor for recharging under bright lights (or Sun + magnifying glass)? Dual-use LED/photoreceptor? Frickin' lasers?
Maybe this is how the Green Lantern's alien outfitters came up with the tech: reading Slashdot. Something about that color scheme looks familiar...
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Kind of like how I pictured Steve Mann going down in a supersoaker fight.
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Evan
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Legion Flight Ring (Score:2)
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Of course there's been a few re-launches of the Legion since that story line...
How to dress up as a cheeto...erm... thing I mean. (Score:4, Funny)
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I'd mod parent Interesting, at least (Score:2)
May I be the first to say... (Score:1, Insightful)
ebay (Score:3, Insightful)
Of course they gouge you on the shipping.
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Don't need batteries (Score:3, Funny)
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I would never buy this... (Score:3, Funny)
But that one ring worked!... (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm. (Score:2, Interesting)
Or if your must have it green, then make it copper and let it oxidize; prepare to have your finger turn green too.
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Investment casting is boring. Try 3D printing (Score:1, Interesting)
Alternate power source? (Score:4, Funny)
Rings ??? (Score:2)
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Halloween is coming. Costumes are made. Comic book heroes are considered. DIY project. God damn you are right, nerds have no need for this type of news.
Lighten up.
If you stop about halfway through the process... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:If you stop about halfway through the process.. (Score:3, Informative)
On which note, perhaps one should make a power battery to go with the ring, and make it into a bong...
This is great! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh great... (Score:4, Funny)
First you need to carve a wax model of the ring. I use green Ferris jeweler's wax- it's available from jeweler tool supply shops
OK. Without using Google, how many people know of any jeweler tool supply shops? I must have missed this one....
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Without using Google, how many people know of any jeweler tool supply shops?
I do, Lacy and Company in Toronto, Ontario. But, ok, a little while ago I was looking at what would be involved in doing a small scale casting project, so I made a point of checking out Toronto, Ontario area metal suppliers and jewelry supply shops.
As for Lacy and Company, it is nice little shop that one will NOT find by accident (basement level of a small downtown office building). Still, kind of cute to wander around the stor
No Silver Age science fiction fans out there? (Score:2, Informative)
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Forget the Green Lantern... (Score:3, Funny)
Big Let Down yet once again (Score:2, Insightful)
It's Sunday (Score:2)
Semi-dumb (Score:4, Insightful)
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An Easier/Cheaper way (Score:2)
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(look at nick)
Cool Costume Ideas (Score:2)
>>Anyone have other good costume ideas
I can think of 2 that I've wanted for a while:
1. A lightsaber that feels more or less 'real', looks real (meaning that it glows) and can be used for duelling. No really....I'd pay $200 for one out of my entertainment budget if I knew that I could rough around with it. The current generation of 'realistic' light sabers, I believe, aren't intended for sparring.
2. A Bat'leh (bad spelling...a Klingon Sword). IMHO, this is the most badass TV/Movie weap
No battery available? (Score:2, Funny)
But I thought that all tech men carried batteries?
How to make a Green Lantern ring... (Score:2, Funny)
Alternatively... (Score:2)
He also did my missus' engagement ring.
Re:Green lantern ring? (Score:5, Informative)
Anonymous Coward wrote:
I think the lantern on the Alan Scott ring is a replica of the lantern that was used to charge his ring. It is green because that was the color of the metal used to form the ring, and Scott was guided to give the ring that form when he created it. The form of the ring's charger, in turn, was based on a old railroad lantern. Scott wears a logo on his chest of the same type of lantern.
The rings that Jordan and Stewart wear (and Rayner used to wear) are based on the Green Lantern icon worn on the uniform, and reflects the central power battery on Oa. The reason Rayner's ring looks different is that his ring was an improved version with no yellow weakness and no 24 hour time limit on its charge. He is the only Lantern that comes to mind that has a ring of that design, the other Lanterns wear a ring of the Jordan/Stewart design.
Rayner recently evolved as a Green Lantern, becoming The Ion. His ring and power has been internalized and he is much more powerful than the other Green Lanterns. He is the next step in the evolution of the Green Lantern Corps.
On the ring mentioned at the beginning of post, I like the design and think that it is how a green lantern ring would look in real life.
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So the end result is all the power rings (excluding of course Alan Scott's magic-based ring) are once again susceptible to a yellow weakness, but it caused by fear generated by the Parallax Fear Anomoly. So any powerful Green Lantern can overcome the yellow weakness now, but it is considered a mark of a novice Lantern to still have their constructs blocked by yellow.
Phew!
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-Mike
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The current spin is that Parallax was a super-villain destroying planet after planet with fear, feeding off it, and the Guardians imprisoned him in the Battery and stripped him of his sentience billions of years ago. Since then the Guardians hid the fact that they did this because they didn't want any crazies to try to release Parallax. But recently, they imprisoned the renegade GL turn villain Sinestro inside the Battery, and while in there with his yellow power ring, he awoke Parallax. Then Parallax and Sinestro worked to take over Hal Jordan, and briefly turned Hal Jordan (to the outrage of nearly everyone) into a super-villain who single-handedly killed almost every single active Green Lantern in the universe and then destroyed the Battery, releasing the Fear Anamoly in full-force. He (that is, Parallax, which is how Hal Jordan became known) then tried to recreate the universe in his own image and started the Zero Hour story arc where Parallax kicked hte Justice League's butts time and again. But then Jordan's good side won over at the last minute and he saved the Earth from destruction by restarting the sun which had been "put out" by a Sun Eater intergallactic weapon.
Only two years ago or so, did it emerge that Jordan was possessed by Parallax. To the outrage of everyone, when the story arc was being played out, no mention was made of possession and it appeared that it was Hal Jordan himself of his own free will murdering Green Lanterns left and right.
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The Sun Eater wasn't an intergalactic weapon. It was a space-living organism so large and so powerful that it could wipe out entire civilizations simply by going about its everyday life activities. It wasn't clear that the Sun Eater was aware of any beings less powerful than say, the Guardians, or Parallax. There was the food (
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Hey! Your pondism is showing. We had our own superheroes thank you (for example, Archie ain't a carrot-topped high school student)
Green Lantern is a classic DC superhero, going back some 60-70 years.
Thank you. Utterly unknown in the UK, except probably for some niche enthusiasts.
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Green Lantern is DC comics, n00b!