[geeks] Electronics project ideas

[Phil Stracchino]

On 09/26/12 13:05, William Enestvedt wrote:
>    Luckily the Rhode Island School of Design shop is nearby, and they
> sell plexiglass cylinders -- both hollow and solid. I plan to get a
> 30-inch long piece of this and fit it into the torque wrench handle. But
> I want to insert some kind of light in the middle if I can.
> 
>    Can anyone recommend a way to light up this plexiglass tube? My
> current thought is to disassemble a cheap LED flashlight and cannibalize
> its guts. Are there better alternatives?

Can you get a cylinder with a relatively small center bore and run a
loop of EL wire along the bore?  You'd have to fit the power supply into
the handle somehow, of course.  An LED won't do much to light it up, not
least because the plexiglas won't scatter it well (though you can
improve that part by wet-sanding it lightly all over with 400 to
600-grit wet-or-dry paper).



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