Metroid Arm Cannon Prop

3D printed, wearable, illuminated prop (2021)

Me holding the arm cannon!

Metroid Prime is one of my favorite games of all time, and I really wanted to push my CAD skills to the test by making something with some very complex geometry.

This was modeled in Fusion 360, split apart to fit on my printer using Blender, and the blender output cleaned up with Meshmixer (though I could have done that using remesh in Blender to skip a whole step).

Parts

  • Frosted acrylic sheet
  • Digispark Arduino Compatible board
  • Neopixel addressable RGB strips
  • A whole bunch of PLA