DIY projects

Here are a couple of pics of the paint job I did today.

This is the housing paint job and the hasps I painted as well.

Shot of the business end painted.

So i still have to finish the end where the hanger and the cords are attached. I am not real confident in the paint job. I feel like it will scratch very easily. Wondering if I could spray some polyacrylic or something on as a topcoat.... maybe even clearcoat ...

So i started working on the housing for my LED light fixture. So far I am pretty happy with the results. Its a little bit of trial and error and lots of fine tuning. Now pics.

After trying different configurations using different pieces this is my favorite so far and what i am using for Version 1.


This is what the bottom of the fixture looks like i had to do some modifications to get the pieces to fit. Thank ...

I did. And I'm losing some very expensive LPS Rawr


Edited by melev for appropriate category, beeotch.

First day of vacations, not feeling well, spent most of the day either at the bathroom or sleeping.... at night I was feeling a little better, so I decided to work on the Arduino sketch, try to finalize v1.0 of it. Testing was still needed, so I proceeded with the test generating sample light curves for the various day types. By day type I mean "clear day", "cloudy day of various intensities", "thunderstorm day", each defined by an Okta number from 0 to 8.
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So a couple weeks ago i bought a 50W led array off ebay. I ordered the LED and Driver combo and a separate heatsink and 90 degree optic. The LED was listed as 20k color...... but its a cheap ebay LED so i dunno how accurate that color rating is. The parts were shipped from hong kong so it took a couple weeks to get here. I just got around to slapping it all together except for a power source for the heatsink fan. Its wicked bright and the color of the light looks bluish its definitely not real yellow. ...