YELLOWJACKET

"YellowJacket is an all in one portable construction system. Shown here with the mining drill attachment, the wearer can easily suit up, clip on the pack, attach the tool they need, and be ready to work in seconds. It's twin power cores mean you'll never run out of power on a site, and its lightweight roll cage frame protects the pack from even the toughest jobs."

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The backpack was constructed out of a surplus ALICE frame, with two large air filters serving as the "power cores," housed inside sections from an old CD rack. The central tank is constructed from a couple of cylindrical pieces affixed together, with the spinning light on top frankensteined from a couple of different hazard lights, in order to achieve the proper brightness, speed, and lens color.

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The drill arm is made out of bent PVC and an old pool filter, and the giant drill bit is a 3D printed piece. The whole thing runs off an old drill that was gutted and refitted in order to fit the new housing.

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Finally, the Jacket itself is a vintage style motorcycle jacket that I had originally planned to bleach and dye, but ultimately had to be painted to achieve the proper yellow color.