hotacidbath
New Member
A hamster ball to that?! Bravo sir, it looks great. It always amazes me what people can come up with from household items.
GLaDOS Core, from the PC Game "Portal"
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division 6
Master Member
Cool Prop.
I'm at this part of the game right now.
Someone recently made a full size Companion Cube.
D6
I'm at this part of the game right now.
Someone recently made a full size Companion Cube.
D6
RobTFirefly
Active Member
That is amazing!
deadbolt
Sr Member
Thats sweet, nice work :thumbsup Portal is one of my favorites.
I plan on, at some point, building up one of GLaDOS's monitoring cameras. Was thinking of incorporating a motion tracking web cam, one of those with 2 axises and follows movement so it would be functional.
-Carson
I plan on, at some point, building up one of GLaDOS's monitoring cameras. Was thinking of incorporating a motion tracking web cam, one of those with 2 axises and follows movement so it would be functional.
-Carson
Great stuff!
Nick
Nick
Charles Kline
Sr Member
You could make different color lenses for the eye and just swap them around.
Or make the lens clear with a milky plexi behind it, put an array of different colored LEDs inside, then simply flip a switch to get green, blue, red, orange etc.
Or make the lens clear with a milky plexi behind it, put an array of different colored LEDs inside, then simply flip a switch to get green, blue, red, orange etc.
Very cool... did you also recreate the plug?
Oh, I also noticed that the number of dots around the "iris" (see post #27) corresponded to the sequence that you disposed of them. The red core was the fourth and last.
CB2001
Master Member
A simple change of the lens will get that result quicker.
JayDogSqueezy
New Member
Esthetically, I liked the two-dot look better. Poor form, I know, but this was mostly proof of concept for my next build: GLaDOs herself, as a housing for an MAME arcade (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME) I'm going to recreate all four cores (probably smaller versions, though) to be game-accurate, and use the "body" of GLaDOs to house a PC, combined with an LCD screen, as per the game.
I'm trying to figure out how I want to do the arcade controls- i'm considering having the cores open up to reveal the pushbuttons and joystick, so to actually play the arcade, you just grab a core, and the button colors will correspond to the core color (orange player, red player, etc).
Right now I'm working on the logistics of constructing GLaDOs herself. I'm trying to figure out if it'd be easier to find a way to import the model from the half life source files into pep and go from there, or if i want to sculpt it out of PVC, or if I feel like making it heavy duty and getting an arc-welder for it, etc. I'm pretty new at this, so lots of things to consider and not a lot comes naturally yet.
CB2001
Master Member
Awesome idea. Second best PC case idea I've seen since the "Battlestar Galactica" case mod.
If you were doing just normal PC games, I would just recommend the use of a wireless keyboard and mouse. But since you're going with a MAME idea, what you suggested sounds pretty nifty. But that would mean having to cut open the cores you've already constructed (which to me, would would suck because you put so much hard work into it).
Contec
Master Member
Just found this cute small cores someone made
Portal 2 Personality Sphere Figures (Wheatley, Space, Adventure/Rick, "Fact") - YouTube
Portal 2 Personality Sphere Figures (Wheatley, Space, Adventure/Rick, "Fact") - YouTube
LeoFirebrand
Well-Known Member
Excellent work, and I love that is started life as a Hamster ball. Seems like something wheatley might have actually tried....probably hamster powered at that.
PrimoOptimoso
Sr Member
Any idea how big the hamster ball would be compared to the in-game size? If it's close enough I'd love to make one of these to go with the companion cube I made (long before the steampunk portal gun).
