Project: Frankenstripe

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Looking sweet. Are you going to put mesh/plexi behind it to keep fingers out? (Clear plexi behind it with some inner light provided by LED's maybe)

I'm planning on using good ol gutter guard as a medium between the fan and the acrylic guard that I've made.

What did you use to cut the plexi for the fancover?

I bought a scroll saw with part of my stimulus check, and gave it a test run on this. As you can see, the results are great.

Having said that, I doubt there's gonna be another update any time soon--this is another hell week for me due to a birthday party on Friday and a wedding on Saturday, both out in the closest town to the ranch where my parents live. So I'm gonna be taking a three day weekend from work and school. Which means I've gotta get four assignments done before Thursday.

What fun.

[JohnyFive]

Looking awsome dude, love the custom fan grills. Gotta get me one of those scroll saws soon, theres only so much the almighty dremel can do. Was a shame about the reaction between the two paints, you can see how good it would of looked had they not reacted like they did, where they the same brand? if not maybe next time using the same brand of paints will help.

Keep up the good work m8. +rep

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Looking awsome dude, love the custom fan grills. Gotta get me one of those scroll saws soon, theres only so much the almighty dremel can do. Was a shame about the reaction between the two paints, you can see how good it would of looked had they not reacted like they did, where they the same brand? if not maybe next time using the same brand of paints will help.

Keep up the good work m8. +rep

Same brand, bought from the same retailer, at the same time. Like I've said, I've decided to jettison the historical approach and will be redoing this paint job in the very near future.

Thanks for looking!

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See that package? 200 LEDs, straight from Hong Kong.

Oh, and that box underneath? That's 50 ft of wire sleeving.

I've got a three day weekend. Expect a huge update. Both this and ROIO.

[DonT-FeaR]

cant wait.... wow 50ft

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More of a reference for me than anything else. This is for the bottom of the case, gonna have some bad assed red glow going on.

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Update #1 for this weekend:

I found some decent drawer knobs that became case feet. The dice shall be used somewhere else...

Front shot of the feet. Ignore the dust.

Holes! 13/16ths of an inch holes, which is just a touch (thousandths of an inch) bigger than 5 mm (which is the size of the LEDs).

I also picked up some 1/4 W, 220 ohm resistors.

And I've begun building my arrays:

7 more to go.

[DonT-FeaR]

lol nice good luck looking good

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Bottom lights: DONE. Might be sanding them, will run a night test once the sun goes down.

I've got a smallish issue with the positive lead--kinda loose. I know where at too, so if the problem persists, I'll be fixing it.

Thanks for looking, I'm off to finish the front panel!

[JohnyFive]

Looking awsome man, keep it up! +rep and sub.

_'j5