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This instructable will show you how to make a display with LEDs. Count an afternoon for all the cutting and soldering.
The band's name is 'les josettes noires'. They're a girl's fanfare based in Paris.
You can listen to some of their covers here:
http://www.myspace.com/lesjosettesnoiresfanfare
You can also become a fan on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/les-josettes-noires/15202648335
Now, let's get on with the making...
You'll need:
- a sousaphone
- 150+ LEDs (8 per letter)
- a battery (we took 3x(4x1.5V) rechargeable ones in serie.
- as many resistors (the right ones) as you have letters
- Someone good with numbers to tell you the type of resistors and battery you need
- thick (10mm) white foam board
- thin (4mm) black foam board
- a switch
- a stripe of fabric for the outside if you want
- double sided tape
- cutter
- a thick needle
- soldering iron + solder
- wire
- a sunday afternoon
- a girl's fanfarre
The band's name is 'les josettes noires'. They're a girl's fanfare based in Paris.
You can listen to some of their covers here:
http://www.myspace.com/lesjosettesnoiresfanfare
You can also become a fan on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/les-josettes-noires/15202648335
Now, let's get on with the making...
You'll need:
- a sousaphone
- 150+ LEDs (8 per letter)
- a battery (we took 3x(4x1.5V) rechargeable ones in serie.
- as many resistors (the right ones) as you have letters
- Someone good with numbers to tell you the type of resistors and battery you need
- thick (10mm) white foam board
- thin (4mm) black foam board
- a switch
- a stripe of fabric for the outside if you want
- double sided tape
- cutter
- a thick needle
- soldering iron + solder
- wire
- a sunday afternoon
- a girl's fanfarre
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First, measure the sousaphone and make a nice Illustrator file with the letters and the cut-out shape you want for the outside. Reverse it and print it. It took us around 8 pages to fit everything. Rearrange the pages and double-side tape them on the thick foamboard. Draw some thicker bumps on the inside (4mm) so the ring can sit nicely and tightely on the sousaphone.
Print the letters again. Double side-tape them on the black foam board. Cut them.
Now on the back side of the ring, mark with a needle the corners of the letters. Go all the way through the thick foam board. That way, you can see where to place the letters so they fit evenly, as you had planed on Illustrator.
Use double-sided tape again to fix the letters where they belong.
Print the letters again. Double side-tape them on the black foam board. Cut them.
Now on the back side of the ring, mark with a needle the corners of the letters. Go all the way through the thick foam board. That way, you can see where to place the letters so they fit evenly, as you had planed on Illustrator.
Use double-sided tape again to fix the letters where they belong.
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