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How To Make a Green Lantern Ring
Malfourmed writes "Step by step instructions for making the ultimate comic book geek jewelery — Green Lantern's power ring. Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner and Alan Scott variations all included. Now someone find me a Katma Tui or Arisia to go with it, and we might just have ourselves a proposal!" The bigger problem of course is that there's no battery available to charge it, so it's just costume jewelry. Anyone have other good costume ideas?
Is it because he's black? Also, these rings seem to be lacking in actual power, so I'm rather disappointed.
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!
John Stewart has a chrome spinner ring.
This is way cooler than tronguy.
We really do need to know about these worthlessly obscure things, here on slashdot. Sunday sure is slow.
At least add a LUXON UltraBrite green LED in there in order to qualify for a ./ frontpage...
The bigger problem of course is that there's no battery available to charge it, so it's just costume jewelry.
Attached a wire to the ring, stick the wire into the wall outlet, and get the charge of your life!
John Stewart uses his ring to fight loud mouthed conservative polititians. He wanted to avoid the politics.
DC will sell you one for $25. The Planet Krypton set of 5 was only $100 and had Hal, Kyle, Alan, Sinestro and Power Ring versions.
It would be cool if we could cast rings from a material that was entirely a battery, then enamel it with an insulator, and mount LEDs on the surface, connected thru the insulator to the battery. Maybe two halves, separated by an inside insulator, and bridged by the LED. Maybe with a small airgap in the insulator, so squeezing the ring closed the circuit.
And how about some chips in there, too? A socketed LED, swapped out for a recharger? Swapped out for a photoreceptor for recharging under bright lights (or Sun + magnifying glass)? Dual-use LED/photoreceptor? Frickin' lasers?
Maybe this is how the Green Lantern's alien outfitters came up with the tech: reading Slashdot. Something about that color scheme looks familiar...
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I'm with the responder to the original article that wanted a http://www3.flickr.com/photos/saldana/234320198Leg ion Flight Ring instead. Yes, a Green Lantern ring is a superset of a Flight Ring functionalitywise, but I'd rather be a Legionnaire. DC sold one about 15 years ago but it was pretty crummy, alas.
This guy wanted to dress up as the Thing (from the Fantastic Four); But the endresult somehow reminds me of a Cheeto in spandex. Still great effort though. :)
I dress up as Aunt Sally at weekends.
What the heck are you talking about? Make a what now?
Step 1, be a nerd.
Step 2, live in your parent's house until you're 45.
Shame that the thumbnail images in articles use javascript links for full size view. Click "view all steps on one page" and look at the page source if you want to be terrified. Only Java coders with enterprisey experience create code that emits markup that fractured and ugly. Where's the "howto construct an accessible community website"?
ebay has them for under $10. Some even with an LED.
Of course they gouge you on the shipping.
-- Boycott Shell
when you can go to garage sales and buy up 1,000 old watches. Just scrape off the radioactive materials and cement them on your power ring.
Anonymous Coward wrote:
I think the lantern on the Alan Scott ring is a replica of the lantern that was used to charge his ring. It is green because that was the color of the metal used to form the ring, and Scott was guided to give the ring that form when he created it. The form of the ring's charger, in turn, was based on a old railroad lantern. Scott wears a logo on his chest of the same type of lantern.
The rings that Jordan and Stewart wear (and Rayner used to wear) are based on the Green Lantern icon worn on the uniform, and reflects the central power battery on Oa. The reason Rayner's ring looks different is that his ring was an improved version with no yellow weakness and no 24 hour time limit on its charge. He is the only Lantern that comes to mind that has a ring of that design, the other Lanterns wear a ring of the Jordan/Stewart design.
Rayner recently evolved as a Green Lantern, becoming The Ion. His ring and power has been internalized and he is much more powerful than the other Green Lanterns. He is the next step in the evolution of the Green Lantern Corps.
On the ring mentioned at the beginning of post, I like the design and think that it is how a green lantern ring would look in real life.
No thanks!
After how badly I got ripped off on my "one ring". Geez, for 300 USD you expect for it to at least work. That was so embarrassing.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
No actally, he uses it to transform and become Superjohn!
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If I was going through the trouble to do this, I'd definitely do it in something other than Al. Maybe brass, or even bronze, which should be as easy to melt as AL. Maybe not as authentic looking, but a lot classier.
Or if your must have it green, then make it copper and let it oxidize; prepare to have your finger turn green too.
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Way to add extraneous detail without actually letting on what the hell you're talking about.
if you are not so good with a dremel too but possess even minimal 3D modeling skills why not check out 3D printing. For something as small as a ring it wouldn't be too much $$$ and you have the ultimate control over the shape... say it won't be a big deal to include a battery compartment and an LED mount
Given the lack of connections to the Oa battery, can't you possibly get its green energy from kryptonite? At least that stuff is found on THIS planet. An added bonus is that it can help you ensure that you are the only superhero guarding sector 2814.
Where were you when the voynix came?
If memory serves he fights stupid politicians on both sides of the aisle.
You mad
"If memory serves he fights stupid politicians on both sides of the aisle."
While going light on the politicians who are on his own side of the aisle, of course.
Where were you when the voynix came?
What is this ? The fashion channel or a website where you can discuss technology, computers and have a pop at the actions of the US Administration. Honestly if I was even remotely interested in rings I'd visit a jewelers.
It sure made $39.95 disappear from your sight, didn't it?
Where were you when the voynix came?
Way to go slick - can't link to Tripod images directly, doorknob!
Still it is the fact that he can make fun of his own side a bit that i like him.
You mad
...you've got yourself a nice miniature marijuana pipe on a ring. Gives the name "Green Lantern" entirely new meaning.
The neutrality of this sig is disputed.
At last i can put that green Ferris jeweler's wax, A furnace , a centrifugal caster a bunch of spare silver to good use.. And to think, i was just about to throw it all out.
God Be Gone
From the article:
First you need to carve a wax model of the ring. I use green Ferris jeweler's wax- it's available from jeweler tool supply shops
OK. Without using Google, how many people know of any jeweler tool supply shops? I must have missed this one....
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
(Crickets chirping; assorted other night sounds indicating)
That's what you get when you play a recording of Rush Limbaugh's insightful and biting humor directed at right-wing targets.
Where were you when the voynix came?
Who cares about having Green Lantern's Power Ring? I want Mr. Fantastic's expandable schlong!
When I first read "Now someone find me . . . Arisia to go with it", my first thought was that I'd really like to have a Lens of Arisia, as described in E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman novels. The Lensmen are almost certainly the predecessors of the Green Lanterns, if not in actuality, then in philosophy and form.
http://www.tenjou.net/
copy & paste them... only too hard for a doorknob
I want step-by-step instructions on how to make a glowing piece of the radical rock..... THE AGGRO CRAG.
-William Brendel
Slash dot has really slid into uselessness for the most part, and this kind of article is a great example of the crap I have been seeing of late here. Slashdot, clean up your moderation, your quality of articles.
Actually Rayner's ring along with Stewart's were just the same old tried-and-true ring technology as the Corps had already had for 10 billion years, but the reason it had no yellow weakness is because the yellow impurity was actually the immortal yellow alien being named Parallax who corrupted Hal Jordan and took over his mind. Parallax was living fear itself in some sense and so the Green Lantern power was corrupted over that spectrum of visible light. So you see in the graphic novel, Green Lantern : Rebirth, that the yellow weakness 'has a name' and that name is Parallax. Jordan/Spectre managed to purge Parallax from Jordan and then Jordan (resurrected), Rayner, Gardner, Stewart and Kilowog with the help of the Guardians cast Parallax back into the Green Lantern battery 'prison cell'.
So the end result is all the power rings (excluding of course Alan Scott's magic-based ring) are once again susceptible to a yellow weakness, but it caused by fear generated by the Parallax Fear Anomoly. So any powerful Green Lantern can overcome the yellow weakness now, but it is considered a mark of a novice Lantern to still have their constructs blocked by yellow.
Phew!
I haven't read GL since I was a teenager (30+ years ago), but I was under the impression that originally, the yellow weakness was intentionally placed in the ring by the Guardians to give them a way to counter a Green Lantern gone rogue. Am I misremembering, or did they change the backstory as the DC universe evolved?
-Mike
I'm sorry; I don't know what I was thinking!
For all I know, the backstory now in place might be incompatible with explicit statements from 30 yrs ago. The whole Crisis on Infinte Worlds / Zero Hour / Infinite Crisis mega-story arcs retconned (altered the history of the DC universe) each time.
The current spin is that Parallax was a super-villain destroying planet after planet with fear, feeding off it, and the Guardians imprisoned him in the Battery and stripped him of his sentience billions of years ago. Since then the Guardians hid the fact that they did this because they didn't want any crazies to try to release Parallax. But recently, they imprisoned the renegade GL turn villain Sinestro inside the Battery, and while in there with his yellow power ring, he awoke Parallax. Then Parallax and Sinestro worked to take over Hal Jordan, and briefly turned Hal Jordan (to the outrage of nearly everyone) into a super-villain who single-handedly killed almost every single active Green Lantern in the universe and then destroyed the Battery, releasing the Fear Anamoly in full-force. He (that is, Parallax, which is how Hal Jordan became known) then tried to recreate the universe in his own image and started the Zero Hour story arc where Parallax kicked hte Justice League's butts time and again. But then Jordan's good side won over at the last minute and he saved the Earth from destruction by restarting the sun which had been "put out" by a Sun Eater intergallactic weapon.
Only two years ago or so, did it emerge that Jordan was possessed by Parallax. To the outrage of everyone, when the story arc was being played out, no mention was made of possession and it appeared that it was Hal Jordan himself of his own free will murdering Green Lanterns left and right.
Why in heck cast something out of silver that you are going to paint?
On which note, perhaps one should make a power battery to go with the ring, and make it into a bong...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Darn Tripod's lack of hot-linking! I'll get you some day!!! (HINT: THIS IS NOT A THREAT)
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Would it be better if we had yet another fucking video game article? "OMFG T3H PS3 1S T3H 3>P3NS1V3!!11!1!eleventy!!1" Yeah, I'll take investment casting over that shit any day, thanks.
I don't think you even need the "directed at right-wing targets" bit--there may be intentionally funny rightwingers but Rush Limbaugh is not one of them. But what you're trying to actually say is true--he never says anything negative about a right-winger who hasn't already been declared apostate.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
There are no articles here otherwise.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
This project might be a lot more accessible to folks by using PMC (precious-metal clay). It's pure silver in a formable plastic base, much like modeling clay. A two-part mold could be created from Fimo, Premo, Sculpey, or some other modeling compound. The mold would be baked and dried and the PMC would then be formed within it. Once dried to a sort of rubbery hardness, the PMC can then be heated (called sintering) according to manufacturer's directions with a soldering or brazing torch. The clay base disappears There's some shrinkage involved in this process; again, manufacturer's directions should be followed. (The original mold should be made somewhat larger than the finished product, but there's a formula.)
A stray thought or two: Last week's market price for sterling silver was $12.50/Troy ounce. It can take as much as 20 OzT to create something the size of a man's ring. That's a lot of silver. If you just want to wear it to a Halloween party, you could get a reasonable effect simply by fooling around with some Premo.
Casting in silver by traditional methods would certainly yield a fabulous result, but your outlay in equipment and metals will be equally fabulous.
How do I know this stuff? Well, it's what I mostly do these days. These folks have everything you could possibly need for either method.
"Here's what's happening. You're starting to drive like your Dad..." - Red Green
From The Summary:
>>Anyone have other good costume ideas
I can think of 2 that I've wanted for a while:
1. A lightsaber that feels more or less 'real', looks real (meaning that it glows) and can be used for duelling. No really....I'd pay $200 for one out of my entertainment budget if I knew that I could rough around with it. The current generation of 'realistic' light sabers, I believe, aren't intended for sparring.
2. A Bat'leh (bad spelling...a Klingon Sword). IMHO, this is the most badass TV/Movie weapon to come around in a while. I couldn't picture anyone wanting to spar with an big alluminum or stainless steel version of this, but I imagine that one would get a pretty good workout from using it as a training or martial arts instrument. Imagine showing up at a Karate tournament and doing a Kata with a Bat'leh?
A costume...maybe hard rubber...version of one, while still kind of dangerous..would be great to top off a Klingon haloween get-up.
Huh?
But I thought that all tech men carried batteries?
Firehed - Unfortunately, thanks to medical breakthroughs, common sense is not as common as it once was.
like this will turn your finger green.
"--there may be intentionally funny rightwingers but Rush Limbaugh is not one of them"
He's often funny with his song parodies, but that might be more of him taking credit for another's work.
Where were you when the voynix came?
http://www.instructables.com/id/ENZV0W9TPLEPZY2UJT /
Hatredman
What scares me is how well you guys all know this despite never having had a date for 20 years. Worse, you all can fly, too.
Guy had the best ring. Plus it was different from the regular GL rings as he got it during crisis. It'd be cool to have a yellow ring. One that worked too. though I'd settle for a Legion flight ring.
What the hell? I thought the whole 'Street Cred' thing was total crap. Now there's Geek Cred?
If someone really feels this need to prove their self to some sort of community through 'cred', they need to get a life...
If someone is putting presure on them to do things for 'cred', that person needs to realize that those people are not their friends and are just using them...
DEAD DEAD DEAD DELETE ME
Just call him on his cellphone, duh!
The Sun Eater wasn't an intergalactic weapon. It was a space-living organism so large and so powerful that it could wipe out entire civilizations simply by going about its everyday life activities. It wasn't clear that the Sun Eater was aware of any beings less powerful than say, the Guardians, or Parallax. There was the food (the Sun), and a bunch of uninteresting rocks (like Earth) in orbit around it. The lifeforms on the rocks were beneath the Sun Eater's notice.
In this sense, it was like the Giant Space Ameoba in the original Star Trek TV series; or to a lesser extent, like Galactus in the Marvel Universe. Galactus IS aware that he destroys intelligent life on a massive scale; but claims (however honestly or dishonestly) that he must consume the life force on living worlds in order to survive.
Now consider that where there is one Sun Eater, there are likely to be more
My Favorite Green Lantern Oath has to be by Jack T. Chance, a n'er do well Green Lantern, but the only one capable of surviving on a criminal world:
"You who are wicked, evil, and mean--
I'm the nastiest creep you've *ever* seen!
Come one, come all; put up a fight;
I'll pound your butts with Green Lantern's light.
Yowza."
Other oaths: http://www.glcorps.org/oa-oath.html
-"Those who fought today will die tommorow."-
He says that he used silver because it was easiest with the equipment he had.
He also did my missus' engagement ring.
Meta will eat itself
It is only necessary to visualize the battery charging the ring. Both the charging and the use of the ring happen on the astral plane. As with all modern magic, the activity accurs first on the astral plane then is mirrored here. As above so below.
That's actually pretty cool, and at least the Thing is an appropriate costume for a fat geek, unlike, oh, say, Tron.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Is this some kind of American version of Mornington Crescent? How much can you write about something without giving people who don't know what it is any clue about what you're discussing?
As a european, I really did not have the slightest clue what a "Green Lantern ring" was. After some googling I found out that apparently it was a gadget of sorts connected to some Marvel comic book character called "the Green Lantern"(?) or some group of super heroes with same name. All Americans here however seemed to know this as if it was burried in their spine or something, knowledge for granted.
:)
Marvel comics really is true culture over there, isn't it? Breathtaking, and interesting
"no it's just you who have your head burried in the sand and don't know about true super heroes LOL"
I think that this level of superhero-comics ignorance is grounds for revoking your Slashdot geek license, but OK. Green Lantern is a classic DC superhero, going back some 60-70 years. His power is a special ring that responds to his mental commands by creating anything he can imagine out of green energy; the ring must be recharged in a special battery shaped like an old style oil-lantern. The rings are actually creations of a super-advanced race of beings who believe in intergalactic justice, those who bear the rings are the Green Lantern Corps. Earth has had several Green Lanterns, with the most famous perhaps being Hal Jordan, and there are many, many alien GLs. Wikipedia can enlighten you further. Most fans can quote the poem or chant the Green Lantern recited when recharging his ring:
In brightest day, in darkest night,
No evil can escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power--Green Lantern's light!
(Yes, I can recite that from memory)
Chris Mattern
I think that this level of superhero-comics ignorance is grounds for revoking your Slashdot geek license, but OK.
Hey! Your pondism is showing. We had our own superheroes thank you (for example, Archie ain't a carrot-topped high school student)
Green Lantern is a classic DC superhero, going back some 60-70 years.
Thank you. Utterly unknown in the UK, except probably for some niche enthusiasts.
Anonymous Coward wrote:
I apologize for not being clear. I was providing an answer to why someone would wear lantern on their ring, and then went into the differences between the different rings to provide a contrast.