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The Planing Process...
The Planing Process...
The Acrylic:
The Acrylic:
At the beginning of the project, there has to always be some planning. First I chose what I wanted to make for the acrylic part of the lamp. I chose a butterfly because they are one of my favorite insects. Butterflies remind me of the circle of life and how they only live for 10 days, but those 10 days are the happiest and prettiest.
I used Inkscape and followed this video: Making an Edge Lit Sign. Following the video, I got my image of the internet then traced the image to a Bitmap. I color-coded my design. Blue is the engraving and red is the vector cut. I used layers to manipulate the design and used it as an advantage since I didn't want to risk moving any of the components out of their alignment.
Plan for the Box
I drew the dimensions of the box and the slot where the acrylic would fit in. The maximum length of the Neo-Pixel was 6 inches. I did the box measurements in centimeters because I am used to the metric system.
The width of the box is 16 cm
The height of the box is 6.5 cm
The depth of the box is 5 cm
The slot of the acrylic is 15 cm
Inscape version of Box
Inscape version of Box
I took the dimensions from my plan and inserted them into Inkscape. I converted the measurements from centimeters to inches. I haven't made the stroke of the lines hairline yet because I had trouble viewing them in Inkscape. I hadn't taken into account the slot width because it was over Thanksgiving break, and I hadn't received my Neo-Pixel strip yet.
The width of the box is 6.594 in
The height of the box is 2.944 in
The depth of the box is 2.694 in
The slot of the acrylic is 5.906 in
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