Category Archives: Night Lights

Hot Wheels LED light sign – part 1

This is my first customer order for one of these so here prepping in Word 2019 to print a double A4 landscape cutting template. Lighting this one up will be tricky cos ain’t much room between the letters.

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Rough Collie on stand – part 7

After working out how to mount the IR receiver we can go ahead and complete the lighting.

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Rough Collie on stand – part 6C

We need to mount the IR receiver board (PCB) so that the actual IR photo diode is visible from the front through a ‘window’ which needs to look neat and tidy.

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Rough Collie on stand – part 6B

Mounting the Normal – Auto slide switch.

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Rough Collie on stand – part 6A

I need to mount a tiny IR receiver (for infrared remote control) on the front of a silhouette light stand in such a way that it has line-of-sight to the remote control AND hide it from view behind a window … Continue reading

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Rough Collie on stand – part 5

Just finished hot gluing the Fairy LED’s onto the back of the doggie so turned it over to check the lighting effect. Also did some more planning about installing the LED controller.

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Rough Collie on stand – part 4

With the first coat of stain on the stand and the doggie ready for the lights we can move over to the electronics/electrical workbench. For this job I’ve come up with a new hybrid lighting idea will I will likely … Continue reading

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Rough Collie on stand – part 3

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Rough Collie on stand – part 2

With the decorative edge routing done we can assemble the stand.

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Router jig for freestanding night light base.

From now on I’ll cut a decorative corner edge on the base of the stand type night light. This stuff is tricky on small workpieces so we need to work out a procedure that can be replicated.

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