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The suggestion went out to base our projects on the Instructables that we have completed. The only project I had up that I could base a letter off of was my circuit board earrings. My plan was to cut the U out of an old motherboard that I had lying around. Then PKM put up a picture of the circuit board he was going to use, and it looked nice and clean, so I decided to come up with something else. As part of the original circuit board letter, I was going to solder little IC chip bugs crawling all over the letter, and since I had a lot of old ICs, I decided to make the whole thing out of ICs.
First, I went through my giant box of circuit boards and pulled out every one that had widebody DIP chips in sockets. I then arranged them on a piece of paper that I had cut to our standard size. It ended up a bit smaller, but I ran out of ICs, and it would have been a lot bigger if I'd added a third row, or even just extended it. I put some duct tape in a U shape on a piece of scrap aluminum sheet and flipped my U over on top, then poked them all down securely to hold them in place for soldering. I ended up soldering together the two sides and the top separately, then lining them up and soldering the three pieces together. The end result of that was rather floppy (No, it's not what she said.) so I sloppily soldered some pieces of music wire in to brace it. It's still not puppy-proof, but it's not supposed to do anything other than sit there.
To support the whole thing, I used a heat gun to bend a foot in one end of a piece of clear plastic sprue, then covered it in two layers of heat-shrink tubing for grip. In the other end, I used a razor saw to cut a small notch, then heated a piece of music wire and melted in a little notch. It'll still fall over in an earthquake, but it stands upright. I wish that there was room to write my message on the back, but it's all poky bits and solder joints back there, no room for text.
No, that's not the correct address on that box. I found that out a week after mailing it when the package arrived at my house with "Return to Sender, Addressee Unknown" stuck on it. The correct address is 489 Clementina St., 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103. This taught me two important things: ALWAYS attach a return address, and get Delivery Confirmation any time you are using Priority Mail--it's worth that extra 65 cents. I wish I'd gotten that the first time through.
I also managed to get a certain song stuck in my head for two days from that sticker....
The suggestion went out to base our projects on the Instructables that we have completed. The only project I had up that I could base a letter off of was my circuit board earrings. My plan was to cut the U out of an old motherboard that I had lying around. Then PKM put up a picture of the circuit board he was going to use, and it looked nice and clean, so I decided to come up with something else. As part of the original circuit board letter, I was going to solder little IC chip bugs crawling all over the letter, and since I had a lot of old ICs, I decided to make the whole thing out of ICs.
First, I went through my giant box of circuit boards and pulled out every one that had widebody DIP chips in sockets. I then arranged them on a piece of paper that I had cut to our standard size. It ended up a bit smaller, but I ran out of ICs, and it would have been a lot bigger if I'd added a third row, or even just extended it. I put some duct tape in a U shape on a piece of scrap aluminum sheet and flipped my U over on top, then poked them all down securely to hold them in place for soldering. I ended up soldering together the two sides and the top separately, then lining them up and soldering the three pieces together. The end result of that was rather floppy (No, it's not what she said.) so I sloppily soldered some pieces of music wire in to brace it. It's still not puppy-proof, but it's not supposed to do anything other than sit there.
To support the whole thing, I used a heat gun to bend a foot in one end of a piece of clear plastic sprue, then covered it in two layers of heat-shrink tubing for grip. In the other end, I used a razor saw to cut a small notch, then heated a piece of music wire and melted in a little notch. It'll still fall over in an earthquake, but it stands upright. I wish that there was room to write my message on the back, but it's all poky bits and solder joints back there, no room for text.
No, that's not the correct address on that box. I found that out a week after mailing it when the package arrived at my house with "Return to Sender, Addressee Unknown" stuck on it. The correct address is 489 Clementina St., 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103. This taught me two important things: ALWAYS attach a return address, and get Delivery Confirmation any time you are using Priority Mail--it's worth that extra 65 cents. I wish I'd gotten that the first time through.
I also managed to get a certain song stuck in my head for two days from that sticker....
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