This is one of the coolest things the Glowforge has enabled for me yet. Like everyone else, my family has succumbed to the mass hysteria of the coming eclipse. NASA made a collection of very cool PDF templates for pin-hole projectors – one for the United States and one for each state.
I downloaded the North Carolina PDF, made some tiny tweaks to separate cuts and scores and make the pin-hole rounder and cut it out on some basic maple plywood. Took me almost no time to wind up with a toy for tomorrow that also acts as a commemorative keepsake.
I drove out from NJ to Paducah KY 4am. Got out here 730pm NJ time but Paducah is about 90 miles west of the central/eastern timezone line. Reminds me of the yer momma jokes from back in the day.
I’m so dumb, it took me 15.5 hours to go 14.5 hours. (.5-1 hour for:
NJ: fuel and food Wawa;
MD potty and food BK;
WV fuel, potty Pilot, walmart-had to replace my phone car mount;
KY fuel Velero, potty, and food Wendy’s) So subtracting the time for being a mere mortal and I figure that was pretty good time for a ~ 970 mile drive.
MD has real nice mountains to drive through east to west. WV isn’t bad either…it was just all down hill from there(altitude-wise anyway ).
How large can the hole be as still be good for viewing? I thought it had to be a pin hole, these seem larger… I was thinking of burning the smallest point the GF can do on a piece of paper
A little too late to warn you, but you don’t view the eclipse through the hole, you hold the hole in line with the sun and it projects an image on another surface.
maple plywood. Took me almost no time to wind up with a toy for tomorrow that also acts as a commemorative keepsake.
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