Ecto Goggles • The Goon's Ecto Goggles + new hidden battery compartment upgrade

I've been building a set of The Goon's Ecto Goggles and I wanted to add a little flashing red light to the corner where he's modelled a hole. However I wasn't so keen on stuffing a load of batteries inside the face shell of the goggles themselves. So I've designed and modelled an upgrade to put a hidden compartment there.

It utilises a 2x CR2032 battery compartment from ebay and I designed a new "knob" that goes over it like a cap and also adds the metal surround as seen on the GBfans version. https://www.gbfans.com/shop/goggle-part ... ith-strap/

My design (which is available on Makerworld) consists of three separate pieces;

• The "metal" base as depicted on the real night vision goggles but missing from The Goon's design
• The battery cap which glues over the top of the compartment lid
• The nub which just needs a dab of glue in the peg hole

It utilises a CR2032 battery compartment which sits neatly within the metal base. You will need to drill a small hole for the wires to feed into the main face part of the goggles and then glue this down. The nub is printed as a separate piece to make it easier to print, avoiding issues with print quality once supports are removed. Simply glue this onto the main battery cover cap. Then lastly glue the battery cover to the unscrewable part of the CR2032 compartment. Once all that is done you can easily wire a simple circuit, I used a 200ohm resistor and a self flashing LED.






It's slightly larger than the original knob on The Goons files but I needed to remake it in order to incorporate the other components. It's not hugely different, maybe half a cm so hopefully not very noticeable. Because it's designed to fit the real-life button-cell compartment I had to take some creative liberties but overall it's not noticeable especially as it is on the underside of the goggles.

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Still need to make the head straps... no rest for the wicked.

Statistics: Posted by Mercifull — April 17th, 2025, 9:56 am

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