[Lab] [ORE_bits] Need some ideas

[Ken McKinnon]

I was thinking edge as well using some smd's glued on.  Should of bought 
a second one to experiment.....hadn't though about the hands..
I like your other idea.  We played with a LED flashlight and from the 
bottom cast some neat shadows on the ceiling, but didn't do anything for 
the face, perhaps bouncing off the wall...need to experiment.



On 2014-07-08 7:50 PM, Richard P Cook rpcook at pobox.com [ORE_bits] wrote:
> I have seen leds used on the edge of glass and plastic but it only 
> lights up what has been etched into the medium.
> You still won't see the hands of the clock.   :(
>
> Would putting the leds behind the clock to diffuse on the wall light 
> up the whole thing?
>
> Richard P Cook
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> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Ken McKinnon klmckinnon at rogers.com 
> <mailto:klmckinnon at rogers.com> [ORE_bits] <ORE_bits at yahoogroups.com 
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>     I found this neat clock at Canadian tire, priced down from $60 to $20
>     (my wife pointed it out) so bought it. The front is glass (not
>     plastic), but in the dark you can't see anything. I want to add a LED
>     (or some) to backlight, and was thinking the edge of the glass.
>
>     See attached pic.
>     As an aside, the clock uses two D cell batteries in parallel, so
>     it is
>     going to be a power eater, but looks so geeky cool.
>
>     Ken McKinnon
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