How to Run the Distance to the Moon with Strava Data and a Pico W Board -- Episode 611

Lorraine and her family have joined together to run to the moon! To motivate them Lorraine has pulled their running data from an online API into a multicolored ladder to the *moon. Note: the moon might be too far and may be substituted with other (closer) space objects.

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Bill of Material:

Product Name	Manufacturer	Quantity	Buy Kit
Raspberry Pi Pico W	Raspberry Pi	1	Buy Now
Pin headers 1 row of 20 pins	Harwin	1	Buy Now
micro USB cable	element14	1	Buy Now
Jumper Wire Kit, Male to Female, Multi-Coloured, 200 mm, 0.1" Dupont Connector, 0.2 mm²	Multicomp	1	Buy Now
RGB LED strip	DFRobot	1	Buy Now
USB extension cable	Startech	1	Buy Now
Tiny breadboard	Pro Signal	1	Buy Now

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Something to run to! It could be the moon, the ISS or your childhood home

Note the light strips in the video are 30 LEDs per metre, but linked above is 60 per metre.

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beacon_dave over 2 years ago

Looking at edge lighting for the rungs, it appears that you can now get acrylic that is specifically designed to be edge lit:

https://www.perspex.co.uk/materials/perspex-cast-acrylic/edge/

It also appears that you can now get acrylic that is "...specially designed to be routered out and LEDs embedded inside...":

https://www.perspex.co.uk/materials/perspex-cast-acrylic/spectrum-led/

You can also now appear to get acrylic that appears black in daylight but will still transmit LED light:

https://www.perspex.co.uk/materials/perspex-cast-acrylic/secret-sign/

Armed with a laser cutter it should be possible to come up with some pretty illuminating results using that lot.

While still down today's rabbit hole, I stumbled across this old Agilent application brief on "Light Guide Techniques Using LED Lamps" which some members may find of some interest.

https://megaled.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf-for-edge-lighting-light-guides.pdf

I'm guessing that a resin 3D printer along with some optical grade epoxy could produce some nice light pipe designs, to help edge-light laser-cut acrylic projects.
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beacon_dave over 2 years ago

Looking at edge lighting for the rungs, it appears that you can now get acrylic that is specifically designed to be edge lit:

https://www.perspex.co.uk/materials/perspex-cast-acrylic/edge/

It also appears that you can now get acrylic that is "...specially designed to be routered out and LEDs embedded inside...":

https://www.perspex.co.uk/materials/perspex-cast-acrylic/spectrum-led/

You can also now appear to get acrylic that appears black in daylight but will still transmit LED light:

https://www.perspex.co.uk/materials/perspex-cast-acrylic/secret-sign/

Armed with a laser cutter it should be possible to come up with some pretty illuminating results using that lot.

While still down today's rabbit hole, I stumbled across this old Agilent application brief on "Light Guide Techniques Using LED Lamps" which some members may find of some interest.

https://megaled.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf-for-edge-lighting-light-guides.pdf

I'm guessing that a resin 3D printer along with some optical grade epoxy could produce some nice light pipe designs, to help edge-light laser-cut acrylic projects.
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