Golden Retriever night light - Part 6

Mock-up with masking tape to get the best lighting effect.

Photo of doggie under the work bench where it's a bit darker to see the effect.

Looks good. Next session we can heat up the glue gun.

Back soon...

Telstra NBN speed check

Looks good.

Golden Retriever night light - Part 5

Preparing to wire the doggie but wait; we haven't done the spray painting - duh.

Ordered another LED strip light with controller and again while waiting for that to arrive will swap the coloured lights on this $3 fairly light from the market over to white LED's - so I cam keep moving.

Now... where's the spray paint.

With that done I'll now have to wait till tomorrow morning to start the wiring.

Not to worry...

Golden Retriever night light - Part 4

Finished cutting the doggie yesterday so now remove the pattern.

Afternoon sunshine

Golden Retriever night light - Part 3

Made the frame that sits inside the back of the picture frame and cut out the doggie pattern on the scroll saw.

Prepared a 3mm MDF blank from scrap for for the pattern.

Using a new trick, applied masking tape to the blank then stuck on the pattern. Pattern easily removed after cutting is done.

Then applied Blue Stik to the whole thing and stuck on the pattern.

As mentioned need to make a frame that sits inside the back of the main frame that is then glued to the back of the base board.

  

Here the frame is glued to the back board.

While that's drying…

start cutting the doggie on the scroll saw.

Phew…that's done, going out for tea so better quit now - back in the morning.

Golden Retriever night light - Part 2

Cutting the base board for the new project.

Golden Retriever night light - Part 1

As mentioned in a previous post rather the building the frame for this Goldie night light I'm going to use a regular picture frame.

I was after a A4 wood box frame but had to settle for this, pretty close see last picture.

This will be interesting, how will the glass work out?

A4 page sitting on top of this particular frame which is not quite A4.

keep looking for one.

Samoyed night light - part 10b

Instructions

Samoyed night light - Part 10A

The Samoyed night is completed.

This morning screwed the stand onto the frame.

Silhouette night lights - some ideas.

Why not use a store bought frame ?



Rather than making my own base board for these projects why not buy some picture frames! A4 wooden ones cost around $10 bucks.

Samoyed night light - part 9

Hot glued the LED's and stained the stand.

A dab of glue on the four standoff's will fix the doggie to the base board.

Samoyed night light - part 8

Made a base and provision to wall hang.

Found a bit of plywood the right so cleaned it up on disc & belt sander. Here I measured and marked so the frame is centered on the stand and used some scrap wood with clamps to fix the location so I can turn it over to put in the screws.

Samoyed night light - part 7 mock-up video

The controller is set to Dusk mode, only works at night (semi-dark to dark) and turns ON when the front mounted PIR (sensor) is triggered by movement.

There is also a Day mode where you manually turn ON/OFF - anytime.

Samoyed night light - part 7

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 from Nat Mac's 

Greyhound night light.

Ready to tape down the LED's so I can check the silhouette lighting effect, relocate any if needed and then carefully hot glue in place.

that looks rather funny.

Made a MDF retainer to hold the controller.

Looks OK, for the next session tomorrow morning fire up the glue gun.

Silhouette night lights - some thoughts

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.

Samoyed night light - part 6

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.

Samoyed night light - part 5

Mounting the controller behind the base board.

Measure the width.

Samoyed night light - part 4

Base board frame glue-up is done.

Sunday shopping trip - continued

How nice is this bird!

A short video clip.

Sunday shopping trip

Shopping trip to market and a swing by ALDI Scoresby on the way home.

At the market came across these sound activated talking birdies that also move their head and wings. Sent a picture to ET (see next pic) to make her selection. Single $15 and double $20.

LED lighting for silhouette projects

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 cell battery pack with simple ON-OFF - see last picture.

Out shopping…Holly waiting

Samoyed night light - part 3

For this session sprayed the doggie black and did more work on the internal frame.

Spray doggie and leave to dry.

Samoyed night light - part 2 update

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

Samoyed night light - part 2

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

Samoyed night light - Part 1

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.

Scroll Saw stuff - silhouette lighting

FAIL !!!

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 !!!

Scroll saw stuff

Home alone and in the workshop for another session doing some thinking and planning.

Home alone off to workshop

Home alone and in the workshop for another session doing scroll saw stuff.

Philips Air Fryer

From the last post with the chicken done and put aside opened a bag of frozen straight cut chips and tossed into the basket about half the bag. Temp 120° for 20mins and off we go again.

The chips cooked nicely just right on the inside and crispy outside

Steamer glass cover is lost ?

Somehow during the Mackenzie clan Christmas festivities the glass cover for our steamer went missing. A pity…that's been with us for like 40 years.

Happy to report we were able to get a perfect replacement from a 'saucepan lady' at the market today - for $10 bucks.

Peaches not well

Philips Air Fryer

After the market went for a drive to Harvey Norman - Fountain Gate to get the last one of these fryers this side of the city for $159