{"id":749,"date":"2022-10-02T15:46:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T19:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-a22\/?p=749"},"modified":"2022-10-02T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T19:46:54","slug":"everything-working-not-quite-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-a22\/rphendrick\/everything-working-not-quite-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Working. . . Not Quite Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week I have been making progress on my final installation. It is not fully functioning yet. I am currently finishing up the mechanical build before moving on to the wiring of the LEDs. Currently I have a polycarbonate sheet that I am about to drill 500 holes into for each of my LEDs to poke through. I am researching the best way to drill into this material without completely destroying it considering it cost me $50. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Cutting the polycarbonate to size.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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I plan to melt a hole for each LED in the ping pong ball using a soldering iron. This will ensure the LED only has to diffuse through one layer of the ping pong ball instead of two. Once the :LED<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grid drawn for drilling the LED holes. Practicing the right approach to drilling out the polycarbonate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Drilling Into Polycarbonate Trials: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small white cracking can be seen stemming from the holes on the left and top right. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The LED’s are roughly 1\/4″ diameter. At first, I tried to drill a smaller pilot hole and then increased the drill bit to 1\/4″. That proved to end with cracking the plexiglass so I then tried just starting with the 1\/4″ bit. That worked pretty well. I noticed the bit was traveling a little if I wasn’t applying a good amount of pressure into the drill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I have been making progress on my final installation. It is not fully functioning yet. I am currently finishing up the mechanical build before moving on to the wiring of the LEDs. Currently I have a polycarbonate sheet that I am about to drill 500 holes into for each of my LEDs to… <\/p>\n

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