I love you so much, I’ve always wanted to make a fursuit, I researched but I was so scared to begin but seeing you do it from scratch filled me with inspiration. Thank you so much my dude. Thank you for going step by step 🐶❤❤❤
Great work, love how you explain the proper steps,materials and your use of cardboard to solve the visor issue. Apprieciate all the time and effort as I build my own protogen head from this!
You're work is so incredible!! I love how he does something with so much confidence!! Love your work, man!! Also, I suggest maybe Tsunami, or Zip for the name. The "Blue" look of it I guess reminds me of something like that. Maybe try thinking of something related to thunder?
Just watched part two a few hours ago and was thinking I'd love to see an update, and now here we are! You've been a really big motivator and inspiration to me and I love watching your process. Keep up the good work, really loving how this looks so far!
Such a well done creation! Hard to believe you've never done this before. I think a cute name would be Raspberry Blue. Named after the device that powers his blue eyes.
what a great video. makes this look realistic if i ever wanted to try for myself. I've always been scared because of how hard it looks! Still hard and tedious but do-able! thanks!
I never would have guessed proto suiters look through the top :0 that's neat. Would there be any way to make the 2 screens' mouth parts connect to eachother to make the mouth a continuous line? Maybe an LED strip? Would probably mess you up in the long run when trying to add expressions though. I think the Raspberry Pi could be attached somewhere on your upper back..? You could make some sort of a platform/mini backpack thing and put it there. Alternatively, on your chest, and you could style it to be like Iron Man's "core" or whatever it's called. As for a name, something like Raspberry? From the board used. Mahogany/Mocha, depending on how much brown and orange fur you'll be using from your last suit. Or Ocean/Breeze/Ripples depending on how much turquoise or blue you'll be using. Good luck continuing this project!
Can't say I've seen this protogen frame used with the led matrix! Usually only see it with smaller matrices dedi ated for each eye and the mouth! Looking good.
This is really Helpful! I bought the Protogen Kit from JTingF and I've been wondering how to set up a Raspberry Pi System! For cable managment I've seen people wear hoodies or backpacks, Ive been thinking of using a piece of fur as a chest piece to hold stuff behind it almost like an inner jacket or even something akin to Vader's Life support system. Would love to do a full Proto-Suit, but even with a Partial I feel like I have my work cut out.
This series couldn't have come at a better time with my recent interests. The mouth lines on the display feel a bit unusually high, but perhaps that's something that cannot be helped with a single display setup. Very keen on seeing where this project ends up.
Hiii, i have one question for you. How did you fix flickering on the led panels. I've been following the tutorial you had in the description and my panel seems to be flickering.
For anyone that wonders he's using a 2.5mm pitch 64x32 led matrix display for the face, that's why it might look a little bit cramped. Arduino is also more than enough, is cheap as shit, is found everywhere and uses peanuts for power although you need C/C++ to program it and it's not quite as intuitive as the raspberry pi. If you're programming a matrix display this big and complex though you'll need an Arduino Mega, thankfully still found literally everywhere and for relatively cheap. You can also use smaller displays like 8x8 or 8x16 and hook them up together to make very basic facial features, about 4x cheaper this way (though not nearly as cool) and the smaller displays are much more common to the point where you may not even need to order them online. Also depending on which model you buy you're likely going to need to buy the IDC port and solder it on the raspberry pi, aka no bonnet (though both the arduino and pi have them). For the Arduino Mega I don't know yet how that'll work out but at least Adafruit has some decent guides, if not decent pricing and insane shipping costs. Then again if you're making a proto helmet you've probably done all your research already and know most of this. Ngl protos are probably among the hardest out of all other fursuit species to make properly, especially if you're going all in on adding features. Update: A bit late to this, still nowhere near finished or getting truly started with this project but I'd very very much like to give a few pros and cons for the different microcontrollers/microcomputers. Arduino: It's very good and is extremely useful for true real-time feedback (as in you don't have to wait for python or c to garbage collect at random times or smth). As I said it's found everywhere but after I did some digging I'm not sure the price is worth it at this point because: Arduino Mega, at least where I'm at, was at least 50+ bucks in my currency (which roughly translates to 25 dollars or smth). Second, you do need some knowledge programming it or spend a lot of time browsing online for solutions because: the progmem function/segment which you use to store images onto flash memory is limited to some 64-72 kb or something so you'll need to write your own custom code to make it work. Even then, you only have 128kb to work with before the program slows down because of "trampoline" effects. More info in this absolutely gold mine of a forum post - forum.arduino.cc/t/is-the-128kb-flash-limit-on-mega-2560-removed-by-arduino-ide-1-6-0/290281 Third, if you want actual animations that don't run at nothingburger frames-per-second you'll wanna go either with a microcomputer or do custom code. Like a guy on the forums once said in a passive-aggressive tone ">parseInt() is a crutch. Learn to write your own data collection and parsing code". Finally if you ever want more than... one and a half or two full 16-fps animations you'll need to get some microSD card shield or a dongle or whatever and that in itself requires separate programming to work with the rest of the arduino and GPIO and at some point I realised it's a massive headache for another time. (Also did I mention there isn't really a led matrix drawing program for the arduino? Well, a non-to-barely functioning one. The guy that made it is a saint though so if you have the skills please help him finish the project it's open source). Compared to this RaspberryPis are extremely straightforward and follow this video directly but the pricing is still really iffy if you're on a budged. Right now I'm considering the "Le Potato" AML-S905X-CC competitor to Pis model 3 B/+ and also the ALL-H3-CC which is almost a 1:1 replica of the model 3 B. The only major issue I'm seeing right now is that there's no GPIO library, but aside from that you can install Raspbian on it so technically it *should* behave like a raspberry pi. There's also a bunch of other rasp pi alternatives like orangepi but considering all the complains from there I've yet to bother looking into that. Only other issue with that is thaaaaaat you'll need to get the bonnet from adafruit or similar sources cuz aliexpress is full of scalpers. And I can't really find that part anywhere else that isn't overpriced. There's 100% chance there's a solution for if you go without bonnet but I'm not sure I wanna bother with that at this point.... Protogens are outrageously expensive even if you do all the work jfc.
All really good points. The smaller LEDs are much easier and cheaper to work with, for this suit I wanted to cram as many LEDs as I could into the space so that's why I choose this board.
I feel like the protogen should be called blue raspberry because of the coding and colour stripes XD so unoriginal but eh I’m simple. I love seeing the progress made every video. The suit looks amazing even without the fur and stuff added. Honestly have no idea how you did that coding but it looks so good. For the wiring and mini computer you could create a pouch on the neck fluff and add it in, if it fits- or if it’s a full suit then a pouch in the front could be useful.
i would love to make a proto head but im not rich like you (pi, led panels, and all the materials u have here are not cheap) i know how to 3d print, sew, and solder tho. i should be able to find enough stuff i already own to make the helmet, most of the electronics (lights bulbs with diffusers most lilley, not a panel like that, nor a pi, i need that pi elsewhere) so the most expensive thing would be the electronics i dont own, fur, foam, diffusser plastic, and the visor. the one dude i knew with a vacum printer like that moved away, and it belonged to his boss for work, so i doubt i could make my own. do u think its still possible with such a limited budget?
What where the exact settings you used for your matrix ? I have some issues as well but don’t know which settings you changed 😅 You could maybe just put it in pastebin or sth, Thx if you do :3
Could you replace the Raspberry Pi with an Arduino? It seems like that would be a much cheaper option and you're not really using that much computing power.
i have been looking at making one but all the power supplys i have are underpowered for the pi4b is there a less power hungry bord out there ? also ez er coding ?
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@@toxic_gamer2014 He'd have to confirm the mm pitch of his, but I want the highest resolution. I'm waiting for Adafruit to have their 2.5mm 64x32 back in stock.
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I love you so much, I’ve always wanted to make a fursuit, I researched but I was so scared to begin but seeing you do it from scratch filled me with inspiration. Thank you so much my dude. Thank you for going step by step 🐶❤❤❤
Same, watching these gave me the confidence to try along with him. Glad this one came out as I was almost caught up to him.
nah furrys r crazy thats crazys
It was actually easy, I could just make it in 10 days
I’m genuinely so excited to see the end product
Great work, love how you explain the proper steps,materials and your use of cardboard to solve the visor issue. Apprieciate all the time and effort as I build my own protogen head from this!
basicalyl build it out of cardboard and then trace the cardboard out onto your plastic. There isn't any magic to it, a lot of trial and error
@@WafflesDoesArt i love that your name is Waffles XD you look like such a serious and cold guy!! love the content too, keep going man.
You're work is so incredible!! I love how he does something with so much confidence!! Love your work, man!!
Also, I suggest maybe Tsunami, or Zip for the name. The "Blue" look of it I guess reminds me of something like that. Maybe try thinking of something related to thunder?
Just watched part two a few hours ago and was thinking I'd love to see an update, and now here we are! You've been a really big motivator and inspiration to me and I love watching your process. Keep up the good work, really loving how this looks so far!
Looking awesome! The project is really coming along.
cant wait to make my protogen head, and this series will be great help! love you and keep dong your amazing work! ❤❤
Such a well done creation! Hard to believe you've never done this before.
I think a cute name would be Raspberry Blue. Named after the device that powers his blue eyes.
what a great video. makes this look realistic if i ever wanted to try for myself. I've always been scared because of how hard it looks! Still hard and tedious but do-able! thanks!
oh it is hard lol but if I can do you so can you!
I never would have guessed proto suiters look through the top :0 that's neat. Would there be any way to make the 2 screens' mouth parts connect to eachother to make the mouth a continuous line? Maybe an LED strip? Would probably mess you up in the long run when trying to add expressions though.
I think the Raspberry Pi could be attached somewhere on your upper back..? You could make some sort of a platform/mini backpack thing and put it there. Alternatively, on your chest, and you could style it to be like Iron Man's "core" or whatever it's called.
As for a name, something like Raspberry? From the board used. Mahogany/Mocha, depending on how much brown and orange fur you'll be using from your last suit. Or Ocean/Breeze/Ripples depending on how much turquoise or blue you'll be using.
Good luck continuing this project!
you have a lot of good ideas, I think it's all about if we can get it to work or not lol. I do really like your backpack idea!
Can't say I've seen this protogen frame used with the led matrix! Usually only see it with smaller matrices dedi ated for each eye and the mouth! Looking good.
This will never bore me.
This is really Helpful! I bought the Protogen Kit from JTingF and I've been wondering how to set up a Raspberry Pi System!
For cable managment I've seen people wear hoodies or backpacks, Ive been thinking of using a piece of fur as a chest piece to hold stuff behind it almost like an inner jacket or even something akin to Vader's Life support system. Would love to do a full Proto-Suit, but even with a Partial I feel like I have my work cut out.
This may be too on the nose but I think Digit is a great name for a protogen since their faces are digital screens.
This series couldn't have come at a better time with my recent interests. The mouth lines on the display feel a bit unusually high, but perhaps that's something that cannot be helped with a single display setup. Very keen on seeing where this project ends up.
It could be a little lower but the glue has dried and what is done can't be undone! 😁
woahh!! Im do excited for this
the entire time i was watching i was like what if its name was raspberry pie or just pie because of the mini computer lol
Hiii, i have one question for you. How did you fix flickering on the led panels. I've been following the tutorial you had in the description and my panel seems to be flickering.
cool as hell great job
Damm I never knew how much work it took to make a protogen face
Edit: My name suggestion is Zynet idk it just popped out if my mind 😸
I think you should name it Riptde I love your content so much and I freaking love protogensss
I kinda want to make a protogen xr headset running a linux virtual desktop that also functions as a powered air purifying respirator.
Cara amei seus videos esta me dando um começo para eu fazer minha mascara protogen
¡obrigado!
Mmh how about cosmo? Astro? Astro light or gala short for galaxy. He gives me a space vibe
AMAZING
Step 1 of making a protogen suit: *BE A GOOD PROGRAMMIST*
ive always wanted to know how the electronics are fitted into the thing (not a furry)
ps: i think cyan or something like that is a nice name maybe
I know this is late but I think Ren would be a cool name
He kinda reminds me my second oldest brothers protogen cyan
😋 so you should name him cyan
For anyone that wonders he's using a 2.5mm pitch 64x32 led matrix display for the face, that's why it might look a little bit cramped. Arduino is also more than enough, is cheap as shit, is found everywhere and uses peanuts for power although you need C/C++ to program it and it's not quite as intuitive as the raspberry pi. If you're programming a matrix display this big and complex though you'll need an Arduino Mega, thankfully still found literally everywhere and for relatively cheap.
You can also use smaller displays like 8x8 or 8x16 and hook them up together to make very basic facial features, about 4x cheaper this way (though not nearly as cool) and the smaller displays are much more common to the point where you may not even need to order them online. Also depending on which model you buy you're likely going to need to buy the IDC port and solder it on the raspberry pi, aka no bonnet (though both the arduino and pi have them). For the Arduino Mega I don't know yet how that'll work out but at least Adafruit has some decent guides, if not decent pricing and insane shipping costs.
Then again if you're making a proto helmet you've probably done all your research already and know most of this. Ngl protos are probably among the hardest out of all other fursuit species to make properly, especially if you're going all in on adding features.
Update: A bit late to this, still nowhere near finished or getting truly started with this project but I'd very very much like to give a few pros and cons for the different microcontrollers/microcomputers.
Arduino: It's very good and is extremely useful for true real-time feedback (as in you don't have to wait for python or c to garbage collect at random times or smth). As I said it's found everywhere but after I did some digging I'm not sure the price is worth it at this point because: Arduino Mega, at least where I'm at, was at least 50+ bucks in my currency (which roughly translates to 25 dollars or smth). Second, you do need some knowledge programming it or spend a lot of time browsing online for solutions because: the progmem function/segment which you use to store images onto flash memory is limited to some 64-72 kb or something so you'll need to write your own custom code to make it work. Even then, you only have 128kb to work with before the program slows down because of "trampoline" effects. More info in this absolutely gold mine of a forum post - forum.arduino.cc/t/is-the-128kb-flash-limit-on-mega-2560-removed-by-arduino-ide-1-6-0/290281
Third, if you want actual animations that don't run at nothingburger frames-per-second you'll wanna go either with a microcomputer or do custom code. Like a guy on the forums once said in a passive-aggressive tone ">parseInt() is a crutch. Learn to write your own data collection and parsing code".
Finally if you ever want more than... one and a half or two full 16-fps animations you'll need to get some microSD card shield or a dongle or whatever and that in itself requires separate programming to work with the rest of the arduino and GPIO and at some point I realised it's a massive headache for another time. (Also did I mention there isn't really a led matrix drawing program for the arduino? Well, a non-to-barely functioning one. The guy that made it is a saint though so if you have the skills please help him finish the project it's open source).
Compared to this RaspberryPis are extremely straightforward and follow this video directly but the pricing is still really iffy if you're on a budged. Right now I'm considering the "Le Potato" AML-S905X-CC competitor to Pis model 3 B/+ and also the ALL-H3-CC which is almost a 1:1 replica of the model 3 B. The only major issue I'm seeing right now is that there's no GPIO library, but aside from that you can install Raspbian on it so technically it *should* behave like a raspberry pi. There's also a bunch of other rasp pi alternatives like orangepi but considering all the complains from there I've yet to bother looking into that.
Only other issue with that is thaaaaaat you'll need to get the bonnet from adafruit or similar sources cuz aliexpress is full of scalpers. And I can't really find that part anywhere else that isn't overpriced. There's 100% chance there's a solution for if you go without bonnet but I'm not sure I wanna bother with that at this point....
Protogens are outrageously expensive even if you do all the work jfc.
All really good points. The smaller LEDs are much easier and cheaper to work with, for this suit I wanted to cram as many LEDs as I could into the space so that's why I choose this board.
I think Xero is a pretty good name. Or like another comment I saw, something space themed like mars mabey?
Wow you do that
I love it 👍❤️ cool Job 😎
techno! that's what you should name the protogen
being one my self
I feel like the protogen should be called blue raspberry because of the coding and colour stripes XD so unoriginal but eh I’m simple.
I love seeing the progress made every video. The suit looks amazing even without the fur and stuff added. Honestly have no idea how you did that coding but it looks so good.
For the wiring and mini computer you could create a pouch on the neck fluff and add it in, if it fits- or if it’s a full suit then a pouch in the front could be useful.
I would have recommended making the face a bit different, the face looks so smol
its so coooool. i would love to see a future tutorial made by you to explain everything step by step. keep up the good work
keep em coming :D
what size of displays did you use
i used adafruit 64x32 led matrixs
damn respect
Do you have a part list of it?
Cool
is a bonnet necessary? i cant find any tutorials accurately describing the wiring without the bonnet
Ok I will definitely save up to by my protogen sut because I have bed luck with LEDs
Wouldnt it be possible to use a series of addressable led strips to make the WHOLE "screen" ?
What is the program language for the display. I'm currently trying to re invent the wheel and run python to do different reactions
Can you link were you got the screen
i would love to make a proto head but im not rich like you (pi, led panels, and all the materials u have here are not cheap)
i know how to 3d print, sew, and solder tho. i should be able to find enough stuff i already own to make the helmet, most of the electronics (lights bulbs with diffusers most lilley, not a panel like that, nor a pi, i need that pi elsewhere) so the most expensive thing would be the electronics i dont own, fur, foam, diffusser plastic, and the visor. the one dude i knew with a vacum printer like that moved away, and it belonged to his boss for work, so i doubt i could make my own.
do u think its still possible with such a limited budget?
You should definitely name it raspberry pi lol
just name him raspberry pie! i think its fitting
Could you do an animated version and maybe give it to us?
Genius
😊WOW
What where the exact settings you used for your matrix ? I have some issues as well but don’t know which settings you changed 😅
You could maybe just put it in pastebin or sth, Thx if you do :3
But can it run Doom?
Could you replace the Raspberry Pi with an Arduino? It seems like that would be a much cheaper option and you're not really using that much computing power.
Hello
Very nice project but i have a question.
how do you flip the second panel?
Sorry for my english...
The second panel is not flipped, the image is. The center of the face image is the middle of the screens. Hope that helps!
@@WafflesDoesArt
THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤
Now it's working❤
Wher should i buy without making??
Put a camera in there and then send the feed to a screen inside of the helmet so you could see better
I'm looking for one of those 90 ° fan
Can't find it
they are called "blower fans" on amazon
Thanks
Me to bro I want to make but I don't have enough money😢
Does anyone know where to get the 90 degree fan thingy?
they are 5v blower fans, they only cost a few bucks
Hey waffles just wandering where u got the leds
Adafruit!
Thanks but I’m South African if I order I’ll get scammed
@@WafflesDoesArt
But I’ll try I checked and it’s about R459
i have been looking at making one but all the power supplys i have are underpowered for the pi4b is there a less power hungry bord out there ? also ez er coding ?
I'm making this
With boop detection
AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME
how much does the led matrix cost compared to something thinner like an sdi diplay or a small hdmi screen?
I'm not sure, I didn't look into them at all. I wanted that LED matex look!
Proffles?
whats the soddering work or u just using a board ?
How much?..
Question, how did you get the text for 5:22?
from the RPI RGB LED Matrix's github page, they have a guide you can use
@@WafflesDoesArt so I tried doing that, but keep getting stuck because the code never compiled like theirs or yours.
@@WafflesDoesArt I get stuck when I try to put the code in for the test image
It skips my image saying it's unable to open (Magick: Unable to open file(...) reported by magick/blob.c:3094 (OpenBlob) then followed by No image could be loaded
Man i dont use linux i think im doomed to have a faceless protogen forever cause that coding looks terrifying 😭
I want too see if I can get help from family and bassically foloow this as a tutorial but Am mostly acared of the coding part of it😅
you can do it!
Hmmmmmmm maybe Void Or Monarch
This is legit impressive
How about the name Aurora?
Ok, way less complicated than my P.A.M.S.
What size of led u using?
I was wondering too, so counted 64x32.
what mm is the led matrix display?
@@toxic_gamer2014 He'd have to confirm the mm pitch of his, but I want the highest resolution. I'm waiting for Adafruit to have their 2.5mm 64x32 back in stock.
I'll call him, protogen
Please name them St-Eeve1.0
The name geh
You know I don't really like furries all that much (no I am not an anti furry they are stupid Lil kids) but this mask is really well made 10/10¡
I make protogen feel free to reply to this comment for help, a arduino nano will work for the leds but it’s too late for that
lol a little late for that, true!
name him joe
PROOT
Call it mrbeast6000