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?
Where's the LED? (Score:5, Insightful)
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
May I be the first to say... (Score:1, Insightful)
ebay (Score:3, Insightful)
Of course they gouge you on the shipping.
Re:Either get a Sony laptop battery or... (Score:1, Insightful)
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.)
Re:What? No John Stewart ring? (Score:3, Insightful)
That's what you get when you play a recording of Rush Limbaugh's insightful and biting humor directed at right-wing targets.
Big Let Down yet once again (Score:2, Insightful)
Semi-dumb (Score:4, Insightful)
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...