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Step 3Prepare picture
Cut your soda can and vellum to size. Your picture and glass should already be to size.
Cut a hole in your picture and your aluminum that the LED can shine through.
There will be four layers for your picture before we start on the electronics. Stack layers in the following order:
glass
picture
vellum
aluminum
As you can see, we're using the vellum to diffuse the LED light.
Copper tape is not difficult to work with. Line the edges first. Squish two opposite sides down flat. Run your fingernail or other flat surface over them to make the edges sharp. Then squish the other two sides taking care to make nice corners. The flatter your fold against the glass the nicer your solder will look when you're finished.
Cut a hole in your picture and your aluminum that the LED can shine through.
There will be four layers for your picture before we start on the electronics. Stack layers in the following order:
glass
picture
vellum
aluminum
As you can see, we're using the vellum to diffuse the LED light.
Copper tape is not difficult to work with. Line the edges first. Squish two opposite sides down flat. Run your fingernail or other flat surface over them to make the edges sharp. Then squish the other two sides taking care to make nice corners. The flatter your fold against the glass the nicer your solder will look when you're finished.
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