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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