Lantern made mostly from soap dispenser-parts.
Contains an adressable warm-white RGB led.
Contains an adressable warm-white RGB led.
By masking the “glass”, we’re able to paint the body without worrying about messing up the transparent parts.
A thick basecoat of black paint (mixed with Modpodge) is needed, to ensure that no light is leaking outside the transparent “glass”.
The pictures shows the LED, that the lantern will be placed on top of.
The crane consists of a wooden skewer (for strengh) wrapped in XPS foam, and 4 copper wires.
The wires are actually running inside the beam together with the wooden skewer, as I haven’t decied on a design, when I begun crafting.
So the upper wire-bundle is actually just there for looks, and are not connected to anything (thats why they’re two different colors)
Shown below, is the bottom of the crane platform, with the 4 rope-wires poking though each corner. They get soldered to the lantern, together with a 0.1 μF capacitor (recommended by Adafruit).
This mess was, of cause, hidden by a thin sheet of XPS, so no one will see the subpar soldering job .
Once the crane is done, you almost don’t think about the wires masked as rope.
In retrospect I should’ve kept the original design, without the second lower wheel.
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