Exactly my thought. Oh how I want my GF!
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My son was moving around the colors making the sign light up in different country flag colors…lol
Lots of possibilities.
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You already have a lot of people here that would watch your YouTube channel and you have already made a lot of projects that would be great for instructional videos.
I vote go for it. 
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Cool idea. I’ve also been taking some of this 18 LED flat flashlights apart and making an LED base that way. There’s an Instructable out there. I also use some battery powered lED bases from eBay that cost me about $5 and are good for a 4 1/2" wide acrylic insert. They’re LED restaurant display card units. The LED color is random but I just sort them out when they arrive.
For big stuff I have been going with commercial suppliers or using things like the ones sold for automotive accents.
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Where did you find the bases for $5 on ebay?? Thats pretty cheap 
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Search for “light table menu acrylic flashing” - there are 20 listings now with the cheapest (shipping included) now looks to be $5.66. I usually get 5 or 10 at once and use them for quick little light signs.
The plastic it ships with is really 2 sheets of thin plastic you slip a menu card into if you were using it for its advertised purpose. I throw those away.
Quick & easy to use.
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How many LEDs are in it and do the colors cycle or are they static? Is it a plug in power.
Thats where my cost is…in the 12v adapters
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Not sure - sitting in an airport now 
but I’ll check when I get home. My guess would be 8 or 10.
It’s battery powered - either AA or AAA.
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Found them…I’m surprised my contact in China has them for the same price…USA shipping is faster…may be useful for small designs. What thickness acrylic does it fit?
Never worked with acrylic and was wondering with the colors.
Can you touch an edge of one color to another color and the light will pass into the other to light up as well?
To have like a bottom that is green and the upper half red but sharing the light from the base?
What are the specs on the wall adapters? I bought a 5 pack for $12, but 12V 1A isn’t enough to light my strips.
Ive only used clear and light it up with either colored LEDs or the way I just discovered…lol
The regular colored acrylic like red and green do not edge light the same as the white (clear) or fluorescent colors…I’ll take pics tomorrow to show you
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I buy the 12v 3528 strips and cut them down to about 10"…the 1A lights them up just fine. Dont know about other LED strips…
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I would have thought the fluorescent acrylics would be the most spectacular. No?
White (clear) and the fluorescent colors show best. Although the fluorescents dont even need LEDs to edge light…they can use the ambient light in the room to glow… 
https://community.glowforge.com/uploads/short-url/zEl3cnrWt1jdqp1LQqEQKG8Icxh.jpg
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I think I have 5050’s, that might explain it. With a big 12V battery they sure are bright. I will have to get some 3528’s for desktop projects.
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They fit a 1/8" without modification. I also use 1/4" with an engrave on the bottom that matches the slot profile to thin it out just where it fits into the base. If you wanted to you could do a shallower engrave on both sides so the slot is centered in the material thickness but that would require you to make a quick jig to drop it into so when you flip it over it matches.
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I ordered 5 of them. No laser yet, but stocking up on a few items. Interested to see how they look. Price is good. Not expecting super quality at that price, just that they consistently work.
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They’re more than okay. It’s a simple black ABS plastic base with a battery compartment, switch and LED strip in the trough. You just have to live with the color du jour. I use another vendor for larger ones - but those cost me 5-10x as much. Civilians (non-laser maker types) ooh & ash - the LED refraction off the back etching is almost magic to them 
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