I recently bought the Hyperdynelabs Cylo eye scanner. It’s a 32
led version modeled after the 32 bulb original. After ordering it arrived
about a week later. It’s a small circuit board that has an extending
ribbon cable that goes to 32 super bight red leds.
The leds are in an arc shape that you can form to your helmet’s
eye slot. He has an eye template that he puts the bulbs in and then hot
glues them from behind (this is how the originals were done). You don’t
get the resin template but hot gluing them keeps the leds in a manageable
state. It runs off a 9 volt and doesn’t have a variable speed for
the eye sweep but is set at a good rate. He does offer another version
of the scanner with less leds and voice and wobble eye sound FX.. But
I feel that more leds were more important then the sound fx’s.
This is the most accurate eye scanner I’ve seen yet. I’d still
like to see it in a bulb version. But until that happens this is the way
to go. It runs in the $200 range which might seem like a lot but if you
factor in R & D time and labor its not too bad.
