SoC #25
September 16th, 2009
- it bugs me that I haven’t been adding photos here as much as I imagined
- but I am pleased about the pace of many other hobbies
- and the confluence of some
- excited about a light box I’m designed in my head
- and should really capture more ideas onto paper or in the computer
- before some ideas fall off the ends of my mind
- white plexiglass #2447 is what is used for lightboxes or X-Ray viewers
- or light installations which is funny how I found out
- as I wondered about what the best way to search that was
- as I ‘gestured’ by accidnet on my laptop’s touch panel and it jumped to the bottom of an Ebay listing and there it was
- a few clicks later ordering a piece of #2447 sized to the plywood I picked up earlier last week
- and hoping that a 16 x 19 inch lightbox is sufficient for my needs and that
- 1/8th inch plexiglass will be thick enough
- and calculating whether I’ll need to glue it down
- or allow it to float there
- and how many bright white LEDs and what spacing will be best to illuminate the box
- yet not have hot and cold spots
- and trying to figure out how to attach some kind of netting or plastic to keep dust from flying out when etching, or other dremel like activities
- and sizing shop vacs
- and thinking about angles for other lights but not introduce glare onto clear arylic
- then the Cstream thinks about other projects made do-able by the perfect lightbox with
- a debris vacuum, and under and over lighting, and raised edges, and some kind of plastic netting to keep dust down.
