Portal Shirt – Just in time for Halloween!
It dawned on me that making a see-through Portal shirt might be a huge success. 
It’s probably the geekiest Halloween costume you could possibly make. You see, I do what I must, because I can.
The system consists of a front-mounted LCD, pocket-mounted battery pack and rear-mounted camera. And the best part is you can watch us build it on Episode 4 of the Ben Heck Show, since it is out of beta and releasing on time.
This shirt is now up for auction to benefit the Able Gamers Foundation. Click here to check out the eBay auction!
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October 25th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
ben heck’s portal t-shirt is not a lie…
Not one to rest on his laurels, modder Ben Heck is once more “at it”, cranking out an awesome geek costume just in time for Halloween. By rigging up a chest-mounted LCD screen and a back-mounted CCD camera, he’s created this Portal-in…
October 26th, 2010 at 5:45 am
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October 26th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Awww… disappointed the possum song didn’t make it :(
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October 27th, 2010 at 6:41 am
Tip for anyone building one of these: Try and get a camera with a wide-angle lens. I think it might make it look more “real.”
October 27th, 2010 at 8:01 am
Actually Kyosho, a narrower field of view would have been better. It would have kept objects closer to actual size. The screen being small is part of the equation too.
October 27th, 2010 at 9:16 am
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October 27th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Awesome!!!! I’m wondering what camera did you use?
October 27th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
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October 28th, 2010 at 6:27 am
Great project!
Now you just need to add a front camera, face recognition and transform the portal according to the position of the nearest face.
October 28th, 2010 at 9:30 am
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October 28th, 2010 at 10:35 am
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October 28th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Should’ve lowered the screen and have written above it:
“I visited the Aperture Science Labs, and all I got was this T-shirt.”
October 28th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Where does one get the plans for that awesome portable workbench he pulled out in Episode 4???
October 28th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Ben heck, you always impress me with your projects, but this one is nothing special. Ive seen costumes like this one before. Ive seen one the looked like a big shotgun hole in a guys chest. Still a neat idea. but nothing special.
October 28th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Yeah, I’m not sure what I was thinking. I’d been up over 24 hours and my brain was fried.
October 29th, 2010 at 1:01 am
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October 29th, 2010 at 1:01 am
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October 29th, 2010 at 10:43 am
I think is Cool. Some how it reflects what is behind you. Keep inventing you are good.
October 30th, 2010 at 4:47 am
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October 31st, 2010 at 5:26 am
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November 2nd, 2010 at 7:19 am
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November 8th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
The screen stands out under the shirt a bit too much. Maybe using some foam around the screen to make it an oval and then padding it all with another layer of foam all over the front side of the shirt would take care of that problem. Anyway, how does the back look? There must be smaller webcam type cameras out there that won’t protrude so much (if you don’t care about the image quality), and if you sit back on a chair won’t go into your spine. Great stuff, though a bit early for the technology. Rollable screens and totally flat cameras are a bit out of the DIY tinker’s price-range I suppose.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
I built something similar using two 7″ lcd’s and two pin hole cameras. I drilled out the center of the buttons on a button up shirt and mounted the pinhole camera behind it. Same for the back (had to add a button). Protected the lcd via some plastic binder inserts, added blood, and walla gun shot wound Halloween costume. Won 1st place in a local costume contest. No crazy modding, everything ran off 12Volts so I just grabbed two 12 volt lead acid batteries and stuffed them in my pockets. Ran the camera facing the rear to the front lcd and vice versa.
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February 16th, 2011 at 10:15 am
someone pointed me to your website as you designed a lefty controller, well” if I had a bunch of money I would too..
I’m interested in a lefty X360 controller, soo here’s my story.
My son has Porencephaly ( missing a golf ball size peice of the left side of his brain) he has no fine motor control of his right hand, and can barely hold the right-side of the controller with his right hand.
So he plays lefty, palming the left stick mostly, using thumb on right stick and shooting/nading etc.. with his left fingers.
He’s been playing games since he could hold a controller, my way of helping him with his dexterity of his left and right hands.
He’s come a long way for someone that might not walk, talk, etc.. he also has a slight walking/running issue with his right leg
and if you watch his face closely when he talks, his rightside doesn’t move quite the same as his left.
he does very well, plays many different types of games, COD, HALO, NBA, NFL, MLB, Racing, etc.
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