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Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: CoryBee on April 19, 2013, 04:21:04 am
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A little heart I made for my lady friend. I think it turned out pretty well.
Started off with a template of a heart and Photoshopped in her nick name
Glued the template onto a piece of 3\4" MDF, then drilled some relief holes for the jigsaw (all I have to make cuts like this)
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/ROUHEART_zpsbeecb70e.png) (http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130418162631_zps6a57f4c5.jpeg)
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130418163736_zps23349038.jpeg) (http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130418183206_zpsff68b32f.jpeg)
Routed out space for the LED strips to sit & the 9v battery compartment
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130418183157_zps4118e4e0.jpeg)
Sand & Paint
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130419001306_zpsc73f3543.jpeg) (http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130419001315_zps8f2a6cff.jpeg)
Wired it up then decided it would be a good idea to have a switch on it
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130419001329_zpsd3d96ae3.jpeg) (http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130419002431_zps7b89375e.jpeg)
"Light up the darkness"
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130419004249_zpsace5ea81.jpeg) (http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130419004149_zps5c8cccac.jpeg)
Will add some picture frame hang things so it can go up on a wall
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Thanks guys, I made her a little blinking circuit board in the shape of a heart before and she loved it. That was a bunch of SMD components. So it isn't my first rodeo with LEDs, I thought about throwing in a small circuit and 555 timer to get some cool effects (still might).
She loves hand made things and I think they speak to a whole different level as a gift compared to some shite you could get at walmart or target.
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Nicely done.
Okay fess up CoryBee, what did you do or what are you trying to buy for the house.
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Okay fess up CoryBee, what did you do or what are you trying to buy for the house.
Uhm, if I understand that corectly....You think I am trying to save up to buy something for the house? You would be wrong, I am saving up to afford more trips abroad.
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Hope it gets you a lot of somthin' somethin'.
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Added red t-molding from the 4-player cabinet, tricky to get it in the "butt" portion of the heart
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/IMG_20130419_095719_zps267366fe.jpg) (http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/IMG_20130419_095725_zps5579487c.jpg)
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/IMG_20130419_095748_zpsa9a3a2eb.jpg) (http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/IMG_20130419_095526_zpsb9ab7346.jpg)
Why you guys do dis to me? :banghead:
Listened to you and decided to step it up a notch and make this thing breath\beat
Threw together a "555-Timer" circuit, almost literally. All the parts except for "timer" were scavenged from electronics around the workbench, NPN was an exceptional pain to find.
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130419091242_zps780c05ca.jpeg)
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130419091252_zps095f1fc8.jpeg)
Underside
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/Img_130419091320_zpsb8ea1bb3.jpeg)
Cut down the board, routed out a little bit more of the heart's battery area and glued it under the battery. Battery is held in place by blue tack stuff (stuffs like removable glue)
(http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/CoryDee/IMG_20130419_095737_zps88b02914.jpg)
Now that it beats, there must be a video (at the end I flip the switch to turn it off\on)
Beating LED Heart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyjJ0kwKtHs#)
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Way cool. 8)
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Way cool. 8)
Thanks boss. Here is another shot of it hanging on the wall
Another shot of the heart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o7LBOWtQpg#)
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Nice work! Would have been great for Valentines but it shows alot of ingenuity and I hope you are rewarded appropriately.
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I hope you are rewarded appropriately.
This ^^^
Also, I made her the LED blinking heart I mentioned earlier for valentines day in Ireland. It was only like an inch big and ran off of a button cell battery. This thing takes the cake, it is a gift for her first visit to California.
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She absolutely loved the heart, which is what has been keeping me so busy.......
I am thinking about throwing some other ones together for family members. Not a heart, maybe like a bird (eagle?) with blue LEDs, a rose, or how about a Batman symbol with white LEDs?
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How about a black Batman symbol with yellow LEDs?
Possibly a factor of growing up watching Adam West batman, but that's where I'd go with that. ;)
Either way, really nice work. ;D
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Nice work CoryBee.
I vote for the batman symbol idea too. :applaud:
(I'm currently working on a fight stick for a friend with a floating bat signal)
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Black Batman logo with black LEDs!
Oh wait...
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the lady friend must have been very happy. :cheers:
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Batman and yellow LEDs wins. Don't know why I didn't think of that.
Should I make them breath as well?
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yah make them breath. that would be nice. :applaud: