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Abusing OSHpark for Fun!

jasmohJasMoH 11/29/2017 at 17:024 Comments
As they arrived from Fab. The hole grid is weirdly shimmery and would be visually interesting in its own right.

After coring out the body with a 20g hypodermic needle

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JasMoH wrote 11/30/2017 at 19:23 point

That's what I was thinking about when I made it. Right angle mount LEDs exist already; see https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/kingbright/APA2106SYCK/754-1061-2-ND/1747459

I bring this up because if you want, say, a ring light that illuminates inward, these would be an easier way to do that.

I really like how much these resemble fairy lights or fire-flies if you mask the LED itself so it only sends light through the PCB. it very much reminds me of fireflies. I'll post some pics.

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moosepr wrote 11/30/2017 at 09:11 point

I have seen the future!! And it is glowing PCB's!!! Dam interesting idea

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oshpark wrote 11/30/2017 at 02:35 point

Wow, that's tiny!

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Bastiaan wrote 11/29/2017 at 18:30 point

It could be an interesting way to illuminate something else in between a number of leds mounted these way around that. Some sort of illumination from the inside of the pcb as light shines throughout the material.

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