Ghetto mod by Lage Sunlight! *arg* BEGONE FOUL BEAST! Ok, so I was getting rather annoyed by the sunlight that is/was hitting my screen from ~12:00 to ~15:00. Here is a picture of the sunlight. Look at that, djeezuz! Hideous! One more shot of the window. Look at the top-right corner, there's the sun. Darn sun Step #1: Planning Ok, so I needed some material to work with. I looked around and found a blanket that would suit this project perfectly! So I now have: A blanket! The window! This is a shot of the blanket I found. Step #2: Starting the mod I now had all the equipment I needed, time to get modding! (NB: There was no actual dremeling involved!) I looked at the window some, and found this: You can see an opening in the "lock mechanism" (highlighted in red for all you smart people out there!). That is where I will fasten the blanket. This is the blanket locked in its position, looks nice so far Still too much sunlight getting through though! Step #3: Closure Now I needed to "lock" the blanket in some way. So I came up with this crazy idea that I would just lay it outside of the window! Bear(sp?) with me now, this might sound crazy but I will have to let it pass for now! Ok, I have now done that! And it looks sweeeeet I'm so proud. This is the solution I went with. Pretty neat, eh?^^ Step #4: The finished product So now I'm done, pretty sad Was having a ton-of-fun doing this mod. Here are some pictures of the final mod, enjoy!^^ Same picture as the one above, I rock! This is how the screen looks now! Look mom, no sunshine! It looks like there's some sunshine, but that's just my smile reflecting in the monitor! I am really happy this mod turned out well! Sorry for the bad quality pictures, but my computer can't handle good quality A big thanks to everyone who has supported me and given me tips'n'hints! You know who you are! Cheers, laters! If you took this serious, you should be shot!
That is indeed ghetto although you've lost the time old excuse that, "i only got fragged coz the suns shining on my sceen"
I thought the blanket was kind of dull, so I tried to solder some El-wire onto it But the darn thing wouldn't stick. Any ideas?
Can you overclock this "blanket" in any way? I'm sure you'll get better light-blockage to surface area ratio if you just bump up the modifier by 40t/cm. And yes, blue LED's would work good with this, maybe a cathode or two, maybe get it anodized......
Try spraypainting it black. Hey, that might actually work and help decrease lightoutput! I said something useful AND funny, that's just way awesome
Dude, wheres the rust? This is obviously a copy of Ikea's curtain mod - these sloppy wannabe reproductions are all too common now, I'm not impressed.
W00T TeH ThReAd ReViVaL0RZ.. actually to make this worth while... I'm plotting to either get plexi or straight on the glass... that stuff kevs put on novas to black the windows out.... plus then i can see out but the sun won't get me... plus i can prance around naked without my neighbours giving me dirty looks..
I've tinted all the windows in my room. 2 layers of 2 1/2% tint really dark have to use a light in the middle of the day.
