Category Archives: Al’s Workshop

Earlier this year came up with the idea of making silhouette night lights so this is the Facebook page.

Samoyed night light – part 7

Posted on 25/04/2019 by AlanM52

Swapped over from LED strip to LED string, mock-up tape down of the LEDS and a live test – all good. Cut a suitable DC plug lead off a AC adaptor and wired to a string of LED’s left over … Continue reading →

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Silhouette night lights – some thoughts

Posted on 25/04/2019 by AlanM52

Thinking about wiring a DC plug onto a ‘normal’ string of white LED’s and plug that into the controller, then do another light test. Laying out and positioning LED strip in a wandering pattern is painful and messy.

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Samoyed night light – part 6

Posted on 25/04/2019 by AlanM52

Mounting the controller and doing a mock-up light test. This worked out well, I’ll use a small pivoting strip of MDF to secure the controller.

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Samoyed night light – part 5

Posted on 24/04/2019 by AlanM52

Mounting the controller behind the base board. Measure the width.

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LED lighting for silhouette projects

Posted on 23/04/2019 by AlanM52

Battery Powered LED Strip Light PIR Motion Sensor Bed Wardrobe Cabinet LD1735. Took ages to arrive from Australia…??? Up to now while waiting for this to arrive, I have been using a standard string of LED’s powered by a 2 … Continue reading →

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Samoyed night light – part 3

Posted on 23/04/2019 by AlanM52

For this session sprayed the doggie black and did more work on the internal frame. Spray doggie and leave to dry.

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Samoyed night light – part 2 update

Posted on 22/04/2019 by AlanM52

Laying down masking tape first and then gluing the pattern to that with glue stick works really, very easy to remove

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Samoyed night light – part 2

Posted on 22/04/2019 by AlanM52

This is where I downed tools to have a coffee break so finished the rest of the cutting.

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Next up – Samoyed night light.

Posted on 22/04/2019 by AlanM52

Found this picture on the net so used Microsoft Word to insert the picture into a blank document then resized to fit A4 landscape for printing. The back board is also A4 size.

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Scroll Saw stuff – silhouette lighting effect

Posted on 22/04/2019 by AlanM52

For this one from yesterday why did I stick the LED’s to the base board ??? They need to be hot glued to the back of the subject !!!

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