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Author: jdumais
Date Created: 13 Mar 2019 2:34 PM
Last Updated: 11 Mar 2022 3:24 PM
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Episode 426: Retro TV Ads Holiday Ornament

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A child of the hyper-consumerist 80s and 90s, Matt grew up on a steady diet of sugared cereal and UHF television. As such, his sense of nostalgia is driven as much by advertising trends of the era as it is by music or other sociological elements. This leads to an interesting relationship with the winter holiday season, where seasonally-themed television commercials hold as high a place in tradition as any carol, tree, or gift exchange. To celebrate this odd bit of seasonal nostalgia, Matt builds a retro-television-themed ornament from a Raspberry Pi that plays those magical commercials from his youth and is powered by a strand of holiday fairy lights!

Supplemental Content:

  • Thrifting: Of Fairy Lights and Guitar Strings
  • Fairy Light String Teardown
  • How To Add A Speaker To Raspberry Pi
  • How To Set Up Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Video Looper
  • How To Set Up PiTFT

Bill of Material:

Product Name Manufacturer Quantity Buy Kit
RPI3-MODAP - Single Board Computer, Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+, BCM2837B0 SoC, Dual-Band WiFi, IoT Raspberry Pi 1 Buy Now
T7729DV - AC/DC Power Supply, 1 Output, 15.3 W, 5.1 V, 3 A Stontronics 1 Buy Now
WOOD17W1 - 3D Printer Filament, PLA, Wood Effect, 1.75 mm Diameter, 180 mm Spool Diameter, 1kg MG Chemicals 1 Buy Now
2315 - Add-On Board, PiTFT Raspberry Pi HAT, 2.2" TFT Screen, 320 x 240, Non-Touch Adafruit 1 Buy Now
987 - Development Board, Class D Audio Amplifier Module, Stereo, 3.7W, Breadboard Compatible Adafruit 1 Buy Now
MYLAR SPEAKER, 36MM DIA, 8OHM, 1W MULTICOMP 1 Buy Now
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  • mayermakes
    mayermakes over 2 years ago +4

    here is a filament hack, you can use sugarwater to paint on "woodgrain" to the wood filament then shortly hit it with a blowtorch...tada woodgrain look!

  • DAB
    DAB over 2 years ago +2

    Nice build.

     

    If you want a retro challenge, make a set of the old bubble lights.

     

    DAB

  • airbornesurfer
    airbornesurfer over 2 years ago in reply to mayermakes +1

    I have sugar.

    I have paintbrushes.

     

    AND I have a collection of blowtorches....

     

    I may have to attempt this for the inevitable 2.0 revision

  • airbornesurfer
    airbornesurfer over 2 years ago in reply to danielw

    Thanks!

     

    Confidentially, I have to keep it turned off because my dogs freak out at it, lol!

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  • danielw
    danielw over 2 years ago

    Absolutely fantastic.  I'd love to have that on the tree!

     

    Dan.

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    airbornesurfer over 2 years ago in reply to mayermakes

    I have sugar.

    I have paintbrushes.

     

    AND I have a collection of blowtorches....

     

    I may have to attempt this for the inevitable 2.0 revision

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  • airbornesurfer
    airbornesurfer over 2 years ago in reply to DAB

    Haha, thanks!

     

    Also: I've been thinking about working on JUST that problem...maybe next year!

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  • mayermakes
    mayermakes over 2 years ago

    here is a filament hack, you can use sugarwater to paint on "woodgrain" to the wood filament then shortly hit it with a blowtorch...tada woodgrain look!

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  • DAB
    DAB over 2 years ago

    Nice build.

     

    If you want a retro challenge, make a set of the old bubble lights.

     

    DAB

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