Lose yourself to dance in this Wi-Fi-enabled DIY Daft Punk helmet

Fans make the ultimate helmet prop that uses PCB electronics, MIDI, motion/audio interaction, and 250 RGB LED lights.

Daft Punk fans love to show their appreciation for the French electronica band by making pop culture mashup videos and creating Lego tributes. But fans who build fantastic Daft Punk replica helmets are in a class of their own.

Daft Punk — which consist of the producers Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter — are not only known for their music, but also their unusual disguises. The duo always wear gloves and ornate helmets giving them almost robotic personas.

The prop-making team LoveProps has created the ultimate helmet prop, complete with enough bells and whistles to make it worthy of Daft Punk themselves. In the YouTube video, posted by LoveProps on August 31, the helmet is featured in all its shiny, light-up glory.

The handmade sculpted model is crafted with amazing attention to detail. The helmet includes “custom design PCB electronics, Wi-Fi, MIDI, motion/audio interaction, 250 RGB LEDs and a huge programming job,” LoveProps posted in their video description. “A light instrument designed for composing and generate music for the eyes, housed on a one-of-a-kind high quality redesigned GM helmet.”

“The designing, building and programming of the GM01 took more than one year of daily work,” Love Props team member Future Guy Mike wrote on his blog. “Finishing the unit with the desired quality was a huge odyssey. A handmade sculpting model, primed cast, great attention to the detail, perfect scale and custom electronics, code and libraries, make this unit more than a helmet.”

Source: cnet.com