Thursday, January 30, 2020

The perils of night time photography - OMG

After taking those photos went to get the sign to put in the workshop and very nearly walked into this nocturnal visitor with my nose brushing the web – Crikey

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Country property name sign - part 6 evening photos

As expected difficult to take night photos of something like this - eyeballing the sign looks good. On the Samsung J7 Pro went into Camera Pro mode to manually adjust exposure, aperture and ISO etc but that takes too much energy.

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Country property name sign - part 6

Here is a outdoor mock-up of the sign with Jasmine in the background and Cactus up front. Found a timber post behind the garage to knock up a sign post.

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Solar panels for property name signs

Solar panels - anyone know where I can get 5V panels like this one which is no longer available from Jaycar (see previous post).

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Solar LED strip lights for property name signs

Not happy with what's available so once again looking to do my own thing.

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Not willing to pay like $35 bucks for solar LED strip lights. Crikey…that would kill the price point.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Scroll saw clean out

After using this for the last couple of days the easiest way to clean the saw is take it outside and give it a blast with the cordless blower.

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I don’t bother with any dust extraction.

Country property name sign - part 5 update

Here are night photos of the sign but before I took them stuck some white paper to the inside of the back panel and yes it does improve the lighting effect but not really captured by the phone camera.

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Another new toy for kitties.