Power, Motors, and Control Geeks
September 5th, 2007
No costume is complete without an electric motor and the subsequent risk of fire, electrocution, noxious smoke, and/or embarrassing failure.
In my Snow Globe costume from last year I discovered the importance of power and power management. I didn’t fully test my costume and ran out of batteries about half way through the contest. Fortunately the judges were sufficiently impressed that I still won, but had they died mid performance the results would have been much less lucrative.
