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Dan Shookowsky  
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 More options Nov 16 2012, 7:49 pm
From: Dan Shookowsky <dshookow...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:49:12 -0500
Local: Fri, Nov 16 2012 7:49 pm
Subject: Re: [Hive 76 Discussion] Operation Project background

Thanks for the feedback everyone.  That gives me a lot to work with.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:50 PM, PJ Santoro <paint...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, this stuff:
> http://m.homedepot.com/Paint-Adhesives-Tape/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xhmZarpz/R-...

> sent by telephone
> On Nov 16, 2012 6:46 PM, "Kyle Yankanich" <kyleyankan...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> ducting tape is probably what peejay is talking about. Should save you
>> some time of walking the Aisles of Home Depot.

>> -- Kyle Yankanich

>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:34 PM, PJ Santoro <paint...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> It was aluminum foil tape that we picked up at home depot. Worked quite
>>> well, too.

>>> sent by telephone
>>> On Nov 16, 2012 6:30 PM, "Chris Thompson" <eaglea...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> I thought the edges were lined with copper foil tape.

>>>> via mobile.

>>>> On Nov 16, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Far McKon <farmc...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> John 'VoltWhiz' Siemiarowski did a lot of help on the project, and
>>>> almost all of the electrical work. I'm sure he would probably be glad to
>>>> help again if it's a civic minded project.

>>>> IIRC, we just used foil and hotmelt for the metal edges. The tweezers
>>>> were slices of a street-sign, cut and rounded on a router, and using a
>>>> section of 3'(ish) plastic pipe, and a plastic pipe cap. The internal
>>>> electricals was 12v IIRC (from a generic wall-wart)  and we had some real
>>>> back and forth with The Franklin to explain it was not dangerous in any way.

>>>> The nose is just a 'marine lamp' (from online) and we painted the
>>>> inside of the glass shell with some cheap stain-glass stain from the local
>>>> craft store.  The body was 1" ply top, sides, and bottom. We used foamcore
>>>> boxes larger than the holes around the objects, to create the red
>>>> background.

>>>> Oh, and lots of paint.

>>>> All told, it was 3-4 weekends of 6 hour days, by 5ish people each day.

>>>> hack on,
>>>> - Far McKon

>>>> On 11/15/12 10:20 PM, Dan Shookowsky wrote:

>>>> I saw that Hive76 did a large-scale Operation game.  I was thinking of
>>>> doing something similar, but with a Rudolph theme for Christmas (remove
>>>> stockings, candy canes, etc).  I didin't see a full write up on the wiki.
>>>>  What did you use for the conductive edge?  Foil tape?  Aluminum foil?
>>>>  something else?

>>>>  It seems like a pretty simple circuit with some power, a
>>>> light/buzzer, and then a switch formed by the tweezers and contact with the
>>>> "body", but any lessons learned would be appreciated.
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