If you were at Supercon 2018, or you read our recap post, then you’ll recall Brian Benchoff’s Tindie pad printing demo. It featured hilarious KISS themed Tindie PCB badges wearing the face paint for each of the four band members.
What it didn’t include was a body for the members of the band, so Roger Cheng decided to remedy this. Through a series of detailed blog posts, he covers the process through which he created the ensemble you see above.
All of this began in late December of 2018 when Roger took inspiration from the ongoing Hackaday Circuit Sculpture Contest. While he wasn’t eligible to enter, it got him thinking about how he could join in on the fun. After practicing with salvaged SMD LEDs, Roger moved on to create his own 3D-printed copper spool straightener.
With all of this in place, he started out with something simple: making a body for the standard Tindie blinky badge.
The badge itself is a soldering exercise. Roger takes things one step further by adding a third LED on the tail of the copper body. The sculpture consists of two wire loops: one connected to battery positive, and one to negative.
With this project successfully completed, Roger then turned to the KISS Tindies that he brought back from the 2018 Hackaday Superconference, and thus his follow-up project was born.
Thanks to Joe Kim, art already existed for the KISS Tindies and their respective bodies. Using this, Roger was able to create an entire band, complete with a drum set! Check out the video below to see the final creation in action!
My KISS #TindieBlinky band is ready to go on tour! Thanks to @asiwatch for @tindie art I referenced on this #circuitsculpture project, and @BBenchoff for handing out these PCBs at #supercon. Details at https://t.co/Q13NhxFDvD pic.twitter.com/TRRhVxDUZo
— Roger Cheng (@Regorlas) January 7, 2019
