Guy crafts a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months

I actually wasn't aware that HN automatically shortened urls that were over a certain length. All the URLs have been unshortened.

For a pro who knew everything on how to do this, I would likely expect little over a week of man-hour work. However the guy looks like he had a great grasp on the modeling aspect, but not so much on the electronics, so I wouldn't be surprised if he spent equivalent of about two-man-hour work weeks on this.

For someone like me, it would likely take the full 17 months to produce something like this purely for the modeling portion. I'm actually adept at electronics, but I wouldn't be able to model something like that to save my life.

I think they mean IRL.

Or sell them for a bazillion dollars each.

He did make a cast, so it's a lot easier from this point (except for the electronics I guess).

The guy even mentioned this was an on/off project for 17 months, and it also looked like a lot of trial and error in the beginning to get the shape right. A dedicated modeller with a stereolith machine could slam that out a lot quicker.

17 month lead time to develop the making process, with trial and error, in his free time.

i'm sure he could drop that down to a week with some effort into reproduction. would be worthwhile for $1k+ or so.