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Revision as of 13:34, 12 September 2016
One year I wanted to put some big RGB LED ornaments in a tree but all the commercial things I could find were opaque plastic and not nearly big enough. So I made some of my own that could plug directly into a Ren48LSD's outputs.
Materials
- Coroplast
- Hot glue
- Short 6" pieces of PVC
- Dumb RGB strips (the roll kind)
- An RJ45 breakout board
Shapes & Assembly
I Googled "3D geometric shapes" and found plenty of examples, some I could print out and cut out of coroplast, then hot glue together. For example, here's a cube that's one piece of corplast; scored, folded and glued together it made for a nice box for testing the concept.
Since all I had was scrap coroplast and no really large pieces, most of the shapes required cutting out individual pieces for a shape and hot gluing them together at the seams. It was a tedious process but it worked -- and I got rid of a lot of loose pieces of coroplast that weren't much good for anything, such as these two:
For illumination, four short RGB strips were zip-tied to a 6" piece of PVC. The connection wires were then brought together into a
