18 signs, 15 for students and three for the catechists.
Lots of weeding needed for all the parts.
Nice to be able to engrave the date on the base.
I got the design here which was offered free to use.
I did redo the whole thing in Inkscape so I could customize the size better. Slightly different fonts.
These are all made as I did post before about using my 3D FDM printer and the Glowforge. Lots of Soldering.
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Le Chat Noir I traced from an image and tweaked by hand the vectors. It’s a hugely complicated 3color original so requires some interesting work to recreate the feel of the original with just the white. No pupils on this image gives it an eyeglasses look.
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The White tree is wiki commons. I’m still trying to remember the location. Grabbed it way back when I was first doing my matchbox design and needed to do some w…
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cynd11
April 8, 2018, 1:21am
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Ohhhh, what lovely gifts! The recipients will treasure them forever. Got 'em done just in time, too! I can’t imagine making that many lamps from scratch.
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beautiful gifts I’m sure will be cherished!
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briski
April 8, 2018, 1:49am
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Those look great! Did you use just a simple LED in the base? How do you power it?
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Jules
April 8, 2018, 1:49am
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Shame that wasn’t available when I was confirmed. Those are very special.
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briski:
simple LED in the bas
I bought a bunch of USB cables, cut off the micro end and then soldered to 5v LED strips that I had cut into three strips. Check the referenced post for how to on that. They use any USB wall wart or USB port in a computer, hub or screen.
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Really nice gifts! That was a daunting task, especially with all the cutting/soldering. Try these next time – 'way less work!
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