This one featured iPhone control, and marked a trend of the helmets increasing in technical capabilities as the decade progressed and better components became available. In 2014 Adafruit published a design for a 3D printed Guy-Manuel helmet, which would have paired nicely with Marc’s Thomas helmet whose shell was printed in polycarbonate on a high-quality industrial printer. Advancing Tech Just Makes Them Better And Better Mike Michelena gave his helmet MIDI control. Not content with just one, he returned a year later with his version of Thomas Bangalter’s headgear. Harrison used very similar techniques to make the helmet itself, but knocked it out of the park with the LED lighting effects to bring the life the closest helmet you could have to a real one without being in the band itself. Harison Krix again, this time with a Thomas Bangalter headpiece One of the earliest Daft Punk helmets we featured came from Ben Heck Harrison Krix, a very high quality sculpted Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo model replicated as a resin shell by means of a flexible silicone mould, and given a vacuum-formed visor. We’ve reached into the archives for a bit of Daft Punk helmet nostalgia, so stick on Harder Better Faster and lets take a look at them, er, one more time. Microcontrollers, EL wire, and LEDs are universal, so the challenge lies in artistic expression with the helmet design rather than in making the effects themselves. The artists themselves have been reticent about the exact technology that powers their headgear, but while this is a source of endless mystery and speculation to the music press it’s safe to assume from our perspective that their designers have the same parts at their disposal as we have.

Harrison Krix’s 2009 take on Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s helmet. A perennial project has been to replicate in some way their iconic robot helmets. The French dance music duo Daft Punk have split up, announced in a video that’s has already clocked 22 million views.The band have inspired hardware geeks across the world not just with their music but the way they present themselves.

It’s with sadness that we note the end to an end.

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