I have been working on this since about 1993. Starting at the top...
The crown of the head is a child's baseball helmet spraypainted white to match my face.
The rest of the head is martial arts padding.
The left eye of the goggles is a hologram sticker of a spring-- it looks really cool when the light hits it right. Attached to the left eyepiece is a battery-operated plasma disc. There is a red LED under the right eye with a cord that runs down my right arm to my right hand with a switch I can trigger with my thumb and forefinger. The right side of the helmet has a green laser pointer-- when I'm on stage, you can see the laser beam in the air.
The chest is bicycle motocross (BMX) gear. There are a series of flashing LEDs on the right side of the chest, and I built a voice modulator onto the left side of the chest that makes me sound like a Borg when I speak (the microphone comes up from the center of the chest to right below my mouth. There is a electronic picture displaying keychain in the middle top of my chest-- I loaded different Borg graphics onto it and it cycles through different pictures automatically.
I'm wearing a black turtleneck that I've sewn various Borg parts onto.
The back of my neck is a small neck fan from Sharper Image.
The right hand is a modified Nintendo Power Glove/
The left arm is part of a Sears leaf blower, and a Real Ghostbusters Ghost Grabber claw-- the claw opens and closes, and I put a small push-button motor into the left arm so I make a motorized sound when I walk.
The trunks are hockey pants with more Borg stuff sewn on.
The right leg is a snow boot, rollerblade padding, and the back of a Darth Vader Tie Fighter wing.
The left leg is one of those things that protects your foot if you break your ankle and you have to wear a cast, and baseball catcher's padding.
Tubing came from Ikea and Boeing Surplus.
Various Borg parts came from numerous thrift stores (mostly old toys).
The crown of the head is a child's baseball helmet spraypainted white to match my face.
The rest of the head is martial arts padding.
The left eye of the goggles is a hologram sticker of a spring-- it looks really cool when the light hits it right. Attached to the left eyepiece is a battery-operated plasma disc. There is a red LED under the right eye with a cord that runs down my right arm to my right hand with a switch I can trigger with my thumb and forefinger. The right side of the helmet has a green laser pointer-- when I'm on stage, you can see the laser beam in the air.
The chest is bicycle motocross (BMX) gear. There are a series of flashing LEDs on the right side of the chest, and I built a voice modulator onto the left side of the chest that makes me sound like a Borg when I speak (the microphone comes up from the center of the chest to right below my mouth. There is a electronic picture displaying keychain in the middle top of my chest-- I loaded different Borg graphics onto it and it cycles through different pictures automatically.
I'm wearing a black turtleneck that I've sewn various Borg parts onto.
The back of my neck is a small neck fan from Sharper Image.
The right hand is a modified Nintendo Power Glove/
The left arm is part of a Sears leaf blower, and a Real Ghostbusters Ghost Grabber claw-- the claw opens and closes, and I put a small push-button motor into the left arm so I make a motorized sound when I walk.
The trunks are hockey pants with more Borg stuff sewn on.
The right leg is a snow boot, rollerblade padding, and the back of a Darth Vader Tie Fighter wing.
The left leg is one of those things that protects your foot if you break your ankle and you have to wear a cast, and baseball catcher's padding.
Tubing came from Ikea and Boeing Surplus.
Various Borg parts came from numerous thrift stores (mostly old toys).
