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What to do with 60+ glass bricks?!

lorrainbow

Hey folks,

I saw these glass bricks on Facebook marketplace and just had to have them!
Facebook post selling 70 retro glass blocks/wall bricks with phot
It turned out the person selling them is a friend whose website I updated lately so she was happy to give them to me for free! There's about 68 of them. They're covered in expanding foam and paint. I've started to clean them up using a scraper and some nail polish remover for the tough bits.
A single cleaned glass brick with a banana on top for sale
But the question is - what to do with them!?! They're 19*19*8cm. They're hollow in the middle so not too heavy. 
I'm going to get 9 cleaned up and stack them in a grid and light up the centre one from different angles. I want to see what's the best way to light them up. And then.... ??
  • A giant wall for Tetris? 
  • An igloo? (Thanks for the idea  !)
Also, how do I stack them? And where! I don't want them to fall on anyone but I also don't want to permanently stick them together. So a frame of sorts? It feels like an outdoor display to me.. so how do I waterproof the electronics?
Any ideas are welcome! 
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  • If you put "one-way" mirror film on both back and front of each block and addressable LEDs on the sides, you could create a really wild reconfigurable building block infinity-mirror sculpture.

    You could make a fairly unobtrusive 3D printed frame for each block that interlocks horizontally to adjacent blocks and hides wiring. Pillars at either end would vertically lock the rows of blocks.

  • in reply to dougw

    Another awesome idea. You could perhaps set that up as a 'hall of mirrors' type display comprised of smaller pedestal type units.

    If you do it as a single wall, then looking at around 150kg for 60 glass bricks alone. Not something you want falling over.

    You appear to get PVC extrusion these days to lock the bricks together with adhesive rather than the rebar and mortar technique of yesteryear, however they advise a maximum combination of 5x5 this way before a row of rebar.

    Another approach may be to go for a tilted back design rather than vertical. The blocks would then sit in a support frame pretty securely by gravity alone. If it was constructed out of T-slot extrusion, then could be dismantled for transportation and also be reconfigured into different structures for different use. 

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  • in reply to dougw

    Another awesome idea. You could perhaps set that up as a 'hall of mirrors' type display comprised of smaller pedestal type units.

    If you do it as a single wall, then looking at around 150kg for 60 glass bricks alone. Not something you want falling over.

    You appear to get PVC extrusion these days to lock the bricks together with adhesive rather than the rebar and mortar technique of yesteryear, however they advise a maximum combination of 5x5 this way before a row of rebar.

    Another approach may be to go for a tilted back design rather than vertical. The blocks would then sit in a support frame pretty securely by gravity alone. If it was constructed out of T-slot extrusion, then could be dismantled for transportation and also be reconfigured into different structures for different use. 

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