I dig it. How protected are they from sweat/etc? How much room did you need to allocate for this setup?

I have all the wires going through the head, and they are sealed. The controller is in a sealed project box that I added a serial port to for ease of use. so if you wanted to pull the sensitive electronics out for washing the head, you could. Everything else dose not need too much added protection, but are calked anyway, just for good measure.

I was able to make a compartment in the back of the head. So you would have zipper access to the project box. The whole thing is heald in place by elastic, and is snugly in a sewn up pocket. There is a Perf board that is in the top of the head with a few resistors and leads, and that is in the foam with the rest of the wires.

Nice. I've gotta give you a call this next week to bounce some things off you. Just a heads up. -thumbs up-

Kinda creepy lookin' in the dark!

I think that is the desired effect, yes.

Just dont carry cash. He wont harm you. Hahaha..

Oh shi* *Grabs money and flees*

I really like this, you should try to see if you can set up an iTouch app and run the system through that. Then attach the iTouch to the wrist and use the touch screen gloves in the hand paws.

The only issue with that is sweat makes a capacitve touch screen unusable. Within moments of being in suit you would not be able to control it. It also would just be hard to control in the first place, as it would have to rest on your palm, and you could not use the other paw to operate it if you had it outside of the suit.

Well about it being on the wrist/forearm area why not have it built into it with a (oh god) velcro secured flap. Are you sure that http://amzn.to/Hz4u7O those would be effected by sweat so much that it would become ineffective?

The problem is that you cannot put handpaws OVER those gloves; the gloves have to be the only thing between your finger and the screen, so you would have to have the iTouch visibly exposed *and* have knitted conductive handpaws.

There are many, many, many other much much much smaller solutions for this problem that don't involve $300 worth of unnecessary processors, flash memory, graphics accelerators and separate charge hardware (and associated risk of frying the whole thing due to sweat running into the device), and many of them sidestep the conductivity problem entirely by not making gratuitous use of touchscreens. If you're already building stuff on perfboard (and Jeff says in the comments that he is), it's frequently easier (and MUCH cheaper) to just go get the components you need and use a couple spare I/O lines rather than try to graft on a bluetooth transciever and write an entire application for a smart device that happens to contain a similar part.

Well my problem is that Im designing a suit with that in it... because of music >.>
But I understand... Just saying people like tech lol

If you need audio or visuals or something that requires a lot of processing, yeah, it can make a lot more sense to do that than rolling your own solution; but a lot of people seem to be taken with the concept of bolting smartphones to *everything* when all the extra hurdles make it really impractical to do. For simple stuff like color control, and with constraints like integration into a fursuit, the KISS principle really does apply. :}

But But I don"t like simple lol. As much as I love K.I.S.S. when it comes to weapons, I like complicated. :3 Makes its harder to reproduce...

...and modify, and configure, and troubleshoot, and operate, and secure, and repair, and...

...and it doesn't make it harder to reproduce, it just means any replicas will be less trouble than your original! :P

Dont get me wrong I love hardware but I prefer the operational simplicity of using software to control things. Making the algorithms needed to create something amazing is what I love about software because with a few lines of code you can make magic.

We're ranging pretty far afield in the comments, here - I'll note you. :}

It not hard to modify, configure or troubleshoot if your not an idiot. Operation is simple, securing is easier than making the suit itself. and what really would make it hard to repair?

that's really interesting. i love the effect once the cloth is put over it.

Spoo-Key. This image kind of reminds me photos I've seen of sea creatures that live in the deepest depths of the oceans that have luminous eyes. They don't use them to see really, but the glowing orbs are useful in attracting and capturing prey.

Might I say, that is very fuckin awesome ^.^

Idea maybe worth pursuing -  godzuki's gargoyle character has light-up eyes that "blink" by briefly switching off at somewhat random intervals. Apparently this was a fluke at first (caused by dodgy wiring), but it was later turned into an intentional feature after all the "oh cool!" comments he received for it.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7032075/

Also, awesome Arduino derivative for sticking in tight spaces (like inside fursuit heads and the like): http://pjrc.com/teensy/index.html

Arduinos?