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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