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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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  • Simple text and line art can look quite good on plain glass bricks. Either painted on or transfers.

    CNC engraving could be effective if used with edge-lighting.

    Giant scrabble tiles might work if you want to create large scrabble type text displays.

    Not enough bricks for a periodic table of elements but some other sort of table thing might work.

    If you cut a side off or mill out an end, then you end up with a vase type thing that can be slotted into a stand or rail. Other weird and wonderful things can then be mounted on top as well. Or you could fill it with resin with no need for finishing sanding and polishing.

    They might work as some sort of hand-sized light-up capacitive touch input device.

    They remind me a bit of the Fox's Glacier Mints that you used to get in the square tube type packets. Just need to find a Polar Bear... 

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  • Simple text and line art can look quite good on plain glass bricks. Either painted on or transfers.

    CNC engraving could be effective if used with edge-lighting.

    Giant scrabble tiles might work if you want to create large scrabble type text displays.

    Not enough bricks for a periodic table of elements but some other sort of table thing might work.

    If you cut a side off or mill out an end, then you end up with a vase type thing that can be slotted into a stand or rail. Other weird and wonderful things can then be mounted on top as well. Or you could fill it with resin with no need for finishing sanding and polishing.

    They might work as some sort of hand-sized light-up capacitive touch input device.

    They remind me a bit of the Fox's Glacier Mints that you used to get in the square tube type packets. Just need to find a Polar Bear... 

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