Cato [MOVED]Just got a spontaneous idea for a nice thing for #GPN22... let's see if this can become reality
I am committing to the idea. I ordered 50m of LED strip and a 600W power supply already. This is going to be cool :3
So far, already spent nearly 450€ on this project... this happens every time :D
But it's going to be good. Here's some of the parts involved 👀 (the train display in the back is not a part of it though)
Visited a friend yesterday to do some CNC routing on the front board :3 the result looks great, but I'm not gonna show it, I don't wanna spoil it just yet :>
Gonna laser-cut some more parts this evening, excited to see how it'll turn out. I also bought supplies yesterday for painting the thing, which I'm probably gonna start doing tomorrow.
Annoyed as fuck because I realised that the WS2811 LED strip has the possible cut points too far apart. Bought new 2812 strip now, which means I also need to use 5V instead of 12V so the entire 160€ worth of power supply and LED strip is now useless and I spent another 200€ on the new LED strips. Also fucking annoying that now I only have about two weeks from when the LED strip arrives to when I need to have it done
Gonna have a lot of software work to do until GPN. The delay caused by the unfitting LED strip (really this is my own damn fault) doesn't make it easier. But I can already try to do some of that work at #FSCK24 this weekend, since what I'm building for GPN is similar to another project of mine :3
Doing some more assembly and boy does it look good. This might be my best-looking project yet. Still not gonna spoil the surprise tho :3
Painted the back white and added hinges, the power input, and locks. Still missing all the internals tho :P
garfieldairlines.net@cato this is just a massive powerbank, the 128 USB PD sockets for the USB pizza oven is on the back.