That's been on my mind (Christmas lights, not selling) for a while. Unfortunately, I'd probably need to start now to get a decent string done by Christmas...

OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but my process is a bit too slow for commercial applications. To have the time to make enough to sell, I'd have to quit my job, and if I quit my job, I'd have to charge a couple hundred dollars per piece - and sell a lot of em. Plus, I'd need many more seasons of TV shows on DVD to watch while working.

On a noncommercial note, one thing I want to try now is minimizing the electronics so they fit in a ball, and only the power cables come out, so I can string them together on thin wires instead of having a big ugly box for each ball, attached with a thick, inflexible ethernet cable.

You must get so high coloring those things, no wonder you keep making them.

Speaking of which, here are a few I haven't posted yet. Some of these are from the "gift" set, and others are older. It's several variations on the standard icosohedron.

And here's my newest one. This shows my prototype board and the resulting circuit, and then the circuitboard placed in the project box.

To assist in the accurate aiming of the LEDs, I placed each one on the face of a tape cube, and soldered on the wires of the ethernet cable which had been put through some heatshrink tubing.

I then constructed the tape ball around the cube, as usual.

Here it is in the dark.

And here is a movie of the blinking.

Here's some interesting shapes you might want to try your hand at, HM.

That is absolutely beautiful!!

I admire both your patience and ingenuity.

I like the buckyball.

:thankyou: Though I do sometimes wonder if it's patience or OCD...

What I always say to folks about mental illness ... it's not usually a problem unless it's keeping you from doing other stuff that you want to or need to.

I'm probably OK then...
:rollanim:

I'm not sure which thread to put this in so, as I'm now using flickr, I'll go ahead and put it in both!


My dad just finished making me a cool box to store my markers and tape in. Here it is, closed, empty, and full:

http://photos7.flickr.com/9354936_1176e256f0.jpg

http://photos5.flickr.com/9354937_c6c542d1f3.jpg

http://photos7.flickr.com/9354939_332b75c869.jpg

Extraordinary!!

That is SO awesome! What a great dad!