I did a lightning talk / show-n-tell last Tuesday at the MHV LUG meeting and covered one end of a table with the Neopixel-lit bulbs & vacuum tubes & hard drive platters I’ve been playing with:
MHVLUG – Hollow State Decorations – Lightning Talk
Some of the posts won’t go live for a week, but here’s a peek into the future:
Vacuum Tube LEDs – IBM 21HB5A Beam Power Tube – violet amber phase
Dang, that came out well…
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#1 by Joel on 2016-02-06 - 08:49
You’re quite the arteest.
#2 by Ed on 2016-02-06 - 09:35
It happened when I was thinking “Art!“, so that’s what it is.
Bear in mind: my works are much
cheaperless expensive now than they will be in, oh, say four decades. [grin]#3 by David Pilling on 2016-02-06 - 09:50
I saw a You Tube where someone connected a high voltage from a car spark coil to an old bulb and turned it into a plasma sphere. Then I found on ebay “1 X DC3v-6V OUT 700 kv 700KV” and I wondered…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-X-DC3v-6V-OUT-700-kv-700KV-high-voltage-generator-of-high-voltage-inverter-EI-/172088249532?hash=item2811424cbc:g:pXQAAOSw5dNWsxYq
#4 by Ed on 2016-02-06 - 09:53
Sounds like a great project. While you’re working that out, keep the horizon betwixt thee & me…
#5 by madbodger on 2016-02-06 - 12:55
I did this sort of thing a lot when I was a kid. I’d run an old ignition coil from a train transformer to get arcs in burned-out bulbs.