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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nI liked it so well that it was one of my first projects for my CNC machine. I did this one in black melamine and I think it turned out pretty snazzy, which is why it hangs over my shop door.<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nI saw a couple of videos on YouTube of people creating their own signs with their 3d printers and some LED programmable lights. So, I went off an made one of those!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The plan was to design an enclosure that I could print on my 3d printer, which has a bedside of 250mm x 210mm x 220mm (XYZ). I settled on a size of 200mm or just just 8″. Then I went off to TinkerCAD to make my parts. (Sidenote: I find Autodesk Fusion 3D really hard to get in to. I’ve taken a few virtual courses and I can get through, but it’s a slog. I suspect with more practice I’d be fine, but I don’t enjoy<\/em> it). Here is what I ended up with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only remaining part was that I needed a sheet of translucent plastic to sit behind the ‘M’. I found some on Amazon that my laser could cut cleanly and off I went to the printer! And the laser!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the parts were printed, mostly in black PLA with the back half of the ‘M’ in white PLA, it was time for assembly. First I used some hot glue to fix the translucent circle on the inside of the gear. Then I glued the two layers, black and white, that make up the ‘M’ and glued those to the outside of the gear. The lights were a cheap set of Alexa enabled LED lights from Amazon. I applied them to the inside of the pink gear above and made it around the inside three times before I ran out of room and cut off the unneeded lights. I also applied a layer of silver reflective tape to the inside of the back cover to encourage those pesky photons to head out the translucent layer and that was a good idea! Then it was just a matter of testing that everything worked before a few dabs of hot glue were put in place to fix the back plate to the back of the gear. And, et voil\u00e0!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n As noted, the lights are Alexa enabled, so voice controlled and running on an automated schedule. I can change the color as the mood requires. All-in-all, a fun project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple years ago I decided I needed a logo. Something to put on things that I make when I want to identify that I made them. I wanted something simple and easy to read. This is what I came up with: I liked it so well that it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-make"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/deeyellem_a_futuristic_city_skyline_filled_with_lots_of_neon_si_a812ece2-f1a3-4b4c-9206-907a00e4e275.png","author_info":{"display_name":"darrin","author_link":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/author\/darrin\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/deeyellem_a_futuristic_city_skyline_filled_with_lots_of_neon_si_a812ece2-f1a3-4b4c-9206-907a00e4e275.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mossor.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>