PROJECT: Lobo

[slaveofconvention]

Hmm - just stuck a couple of LED's in it, 3.5v and they didnt seem THAT bright - saying that, they were running off of 3v bios batteries - going to have to wire up a 3.5 or 7v source and see if i need to think about a third led in there or not....

In the meantime, have painted the back and edges of the perspex black - I don't want light from this leaking into the case if I can avoid it - I want to try to minimise internal light so the moon and wolf stand out as much as possible....

I just lit it up to show the wife and saw a strange but perfect line in it - it turned out that the line was caused by the paint seeping into a crack where I'd drilled the 3mm holes for the LEDs - I admit the hole wasn't very well centred - my bad but grrrr

The crack you can see here, labelled "1"
"2" is a deep scratch I'd decided I could live with because it would be below the line of the metal.

The other thing that I'm not happy with is the bits where the tail, and to a lesser extent, the nose are...

Those are pretty dark shadows and the light isn't carrying quite as well as I thought it would. I think I'll try a curved base next time and maybe as many as 4 or 6 LEDs - they're 3.5v so the wiring is a doddle - simply put two in series, wire them to both the red and yellow molex connector and bang on 7v. I can still put in parallel circuits to create any multiple of 2 LEDS using that very basic wiring...

Guess what's top of the list for tomorrow heh - I have some slightly thicker perspex here too but it's a LOT more brittle so I'm going to load the car with my breadboard, pins, some leds, the paint etc etc and a power source so I can hopefully do the whole thing from start to finish tomorrow - as it happens the weather forecast is pretty crappy but this is something i can do inside, well I probably shouldnt lol but I can....

I might even have a little experiment with some tinfoil on the edges - see if I can make the light reflect around even more - this is one of the very few times I wish I had some chrome paint but I have no intention of buying some for this tiny job....

Do-over!!!! lol

[Killa_Ape]

If you are going to use 4 LEDs you could try to put them on the 12V in series, won't be max brightness b/c they'd be 3v each but you could try it :\

Otherwise good job so far looking forward to more!

[slaveofconvention]

I'm just going to breadboard it initially and play with options till I find the best overall setup - I had them running at 3v at one point and there was a really noticable difference between the 3v and the 3.5v so I'm leaning towards the 3.5 - I have a drawer full of resistors here but no idea what rating they are - really need to sit down and sort that out one of these days lol

[Tech-Daddy]

love what you are doing here bro!
And reading your first post... if I said something to make you think you could only post on M-I, my apologies! I'm a post whore! Spread the word on this mod, it's turning out great!
You are doing exceptional work with it!
)))


-=TD

[DonT-FeaR]

looking insane mate! really like it!

[billygoat333]

nice cuts! the wolf cut turned out exceptionally well! good patience

[slaveofconvention]

love what you are doing here bro!
And reading your first post... if I said something to make you think you could only post on M-I, my apologies! I'm a post whore! Spread the word on this mod, it's turning out great!
You are doing exceptional work with it!
)))


-=TD

Not at all - I've never been one to post in multiple places but thought I might as well give it a go here too for a change - it's on Bit-tech too but it'll be my first n last log there I think - the site's just too big and top-heavy - I prefer the more sensible sized locations - more people you actually know, if that makes sense...

I'm not the kind of person to just stop posting somewhere mid-log but once this is done, I think BT n I will part ways :p

[Mark_Hardware]

Man, a lot of really nice work here! I really like what you've done, great job!

One thing;

This really is the worst kind of modding, because I really don't know 100% what I'm doing with this front panel - I just went at it with a couple of vague ideas.

You've never read my log, have you?

[slaveofconvention]

LOL - well for what it's worth - I WASN'T sure at all, now I'm about 80% lol - mainly because my first two ideas bombed so I'm down to my backups :p

[Mark_Hardware]

haha still doing better than me, I think. Hey, I let the ideas come to me.