Lite brite, makin' things with light, makin' things with light, havin' fun with lite brite! Seems like a <a href="http://www.hasbro.com/litebrite/";>lite-brite</a> set could be modified for use as a volcano board. Subhan On 1/26/06, Elliott C. Evans <eeyore@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Scott Sulzer wrote: > > My personal desire for a craft project would be a "lightbox" > > Volcano board. > > These do look really nice. The first one I know about is Zarf's > Icehouse Presentation Stand, which uses electroluminescent ribbon > under a posterboard grid. > > http://www.eblong.com/zarf/ice-stand.html > > I made an acrylic board that is also a storage box. Later, I made > a lightbox for general use and the board does look pretty swanky > lit up on the lightbox. > > http://www.ee0r.com/proj/volcanodeluxe.html > http://www.ee0r.com/proj/lightbox.html > > Some of us ran into a guy in the Big Bar at Origins who had built > a wooden box that used Looney Labs' acrylic board as a lid, and > was simply lit up inside using one of those round "touch lights". > That was nice, easy, and portable. > > > For example, would a standard bulb work better or some small > > fluorescent tubes? Clear surface or frosted to diffuse the > > light and keep people who were looking at the board from > > being totally blinded by it? Line the interior with a shiny > > reflective surface, or a white gloss surface? All things > > that would have to be worked out through trial and error, I > > believe. > > Here are my answers, based on my own trials and errors. Bulbs > are easier to power than fluorescents. Frosted diffuses the > light better and turns bulb-shaped light sources into a glowing > surface. White is easier, diffuses the light, and is sufficient > for reflecting. > > > The one other alternate that I though of for equal light > > disbursement was to set it up with a small bulb under each > > stack area, hmm, maybe LEDs with a switch so that each square > > could be color coded for setting up, but switched over to > > white light for play??? > > This would be super cool, and I thought about modifying one of > my wooden Volcano boards (http://www.ee0r.com/proj/volcano.html) > by drilling holes in the center of each square and inserting > LEDs, but then I priced it out. Don't forget that you need 25 > of whatever you use, and those nice bright white LEDs or those > tri-color LEDs still cost a few bucks. > > That said, I like the idea of having the LEDs display colors > for set up. Since most people favor a random layout, having a > circuit that displays a "random" pattern for set-up followed by > an all white illuminating mode would be super-cool. > > -- > Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans eeyore@xxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse > -- ===== Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, and Dance like no one's watching. @->>-- @->>-- @->>-- @->>-- @->>-- @->>--