However, it’s cool enough to, say, act as a cubicle charm or workspace novelty that will allow you, the human, to triumph over the encroaching hellfire of technological domination. To be clear, this is not an exact replica. Best of all, the buttons come in white, blue, and green so you can make your own weird version of HAL that lives in an alternate 2001 universe. His brains are an Arduino Uno R3 with speakers attached and his jolly red button is a $10 arcade button. HAL is mostly made of laser cut plastic parts and a few nice decals. This is cool stuff! But if we relax our criteria just a bit, you or I can turn out a pretty decent, recognizable facsimile in a weekend for just a small fraction of the cost. The iconic eye of HAL 9000 from 2001: a Space Odyssey is one such object of desire…popular enough that detailed (and pricey) licensed reproductions exist. HAL? HAAAAAALLLLLL!” Not sure that I want to shove an Amazon Echo or Google Home into it, but there are some Raspberry Pi based assistants that might be slick.Devoted film fans will spend countless hours and hundreds of dollars (occasionally even thousands) to create flawless replica props for their personal collections. I think it’ll look a bit better, maybe like HAL is thinking up new ways to kill all humans 🙂Įventually the plan is to work one of those smart home assistants into this – how cool would it be to have this murderbot in charge of my home automation gear? “HAL, open the garage bay doors please.
For now, the LED just fades in and out in a cyclical pulse, but I think I’m going to change the fade cycle to be a little more random. Batteries seem to last about a day if I forget to turn HAL off.
#HAL 9000 REPLICA PROP PRO#
The LED is run by an Arduino Pro Mini and a couple button cell batteries. Master Replicas Group is making an officially licensed 1:1 scale prop replica of the face of 2001: A Space Odysseys HAL 9000. I’m still undecided as to whether I want to tear it apart and rebuild cleaner, or if I can just live with the imperfections. The label at the top is inkjet printed on adhesive back paper. The lens ring and speaker grill are printed and spray painted chrome silver. The outer frame is wrapped (somewhat poorly) with aluminum tape from the hardware store. Not exactly true to film, but I think it looks very cool. Then I covered the front face with Carbon Fiber patterned adhesive vinyl. I printed the front panels a few times and had nothing but trouble, so I merged the pieces together and printed as one. I also set mine up for a 10mm LED instead of the standard tiny ones for more of that murderous-computer-on-a-killer-space-rampage feel. I designed / patterned the iris to look a bit more like an eyeball than a flat camera lens. My lens sits a little more proud of the face than the original design, but looks well balanced. I had an old overhead projector lens I wanted to use, so I modeled a new Lens Ring and Iris in Solidworks. Then grabbed a thicker frame and Speaker Grill.Īll the HAL models I looked at were setup to use either the original Nikkor fisheye lense (there’s no way I’m dropping $1000 for one of those!) or a cut up plastic ornament globe (weak sauce).
I started with the HAL 9000 model posted by Concentrix. Never mind the messy desk, I’m busy building random crap!
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