Thats bloody cool, i'd be shot for even suggesting something like that, but its still very cool. /thanks to bit for hosting them work blocks most of the normal photo hosting haunts and i usually forget by the time i get home so i would have missed this.
Thats cool, I plan on doing one soon with some friends. How deep do engravings have to be for the light to show? And what resistors did you use? Thanks
That depth depends on how much light you want to show. The deeper the cut is, the brighter it will glow. You should use this to your advantage. Use different depths on different details in the picture. This can help the image to look "richer". The body of the dragon and the knife part and parts of the handle is cut deeper than the rest of the image. It doesn't show to well in the pictures, though. I would recommend to going for about 1/3 of the total thickness of the sheet. As for the resistors, that depends on what LEDs you are using, how many you have in series and the power supply. You can calculate what you need here: http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz I really can't remember what values I used for the resistors, though.
Looks awesome! Very much looking forward to any more projects you do in the future. And good on Bit for hosting those pictures for you.
lot of views I was directed here by www.shoutwire.com this article is why you have so many hits, there might be another source too. http://www.shoutwire.com/comments/117368/Dude_Makes_Wicked_New_Door_For_His_Apartment That's a sick idea, what if you had three or four layers that were all similar drawings, but spaced a little apart like a flip book, and by switching through the layers in order you could have an image that moves. That would be sweet.
I got the glass at my local glass shop. (Pilkington) I can't remember the exact price, but i think it was about 1200NOK. (148.947€ / 221.312 US$) (this was for one full sheet of 3mm plexi and two sheets of 3mm glass cut to shape. (Buying plexi precut is more expensive, and I'm perfectly able to cut it myself. So buying the whole sheet were cheaper. Transporting a whole sheet of normal glass would be impossible, though...) That would work pretty good. The only problem is weight and thickness. You'd have to use thinner glass to be able to fit more layers. And you would then have to go for SMD LEDs. (Which are a PITA to solder without a PCB.)
I got them at a shop called Clas Ohlson. I think they only exist in Scandinavia, though. They were a bit expensive, but getting them in a shop meant no postage. Check out this thread for links to different online stores: http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=86806 Shouldn't be any problem to find a store that sells LEDs.
ROFL! This thread has had 130,000 views!! I'm so tempted to do a news post but I don't really know what to say and it's already been linked places
Wow... must be some kind of record, at least as far as hits per day go. I think we had a couple rare mod logs that were over 250k, but those spanned months if not years (can't say I follow the mod logs much anymore so I can't say for sure).
The number of views have been pretty explosive the last few days. Thanks for all the compliments If you decide to do it just let me know, and i might have more pictures (/better quality) if you need any
