====== Sean ======

====== Projects ======

===== Deus Ex Candelabra Mk I (complete) =====

Comprises:
  * Three cheap RGB LED beads in series
  * Cheap IR-remote LED strip controller.
Looks like a child's drawing close up.

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<del>Deus Ex Candelabra Mk II
We don't talk about candelabra mk ii. There was no mark ii.</del>

===== Deus Ex Candelabra Mk III =====

Comprises:
  * 3D printed diffusion tubes? 230 degree head temperature and print slowly (like 1mm3/s?)
  * 5 mm convex-topped RGB LEDs in parallel
  * Controlled by one of those cheap IR remote things or a wifi-one
	
===== Deus Ex Candelabra Mk IV =====

Comprises:
  * Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 
  * Generic SK6812 3535 strip or WS2812 5050 boards
  * Firmware from Jason Coon's GitHub (still under active development; need to find approach to program LED arrangement
	
===== Magnifier visor light boost =====

Comprises:
  * QX5252F and appropriate inductor
	
===== Nana's flickering table lamp =====

Comprises:
  * Few transistors and diodes
  * Capacitor provides soft on and off
  * Special flickering LEDs with flickering IC in epoxy
  * Regular LEDs in series with the flickering ones


===== Decorative wooden screens =====

Rationale: to decoratively box in the stuff stored on cupboard at top of stairs

Will use laser cutter to cut 3 mm plywood boards. I need to find settings (e.g. laser power to minimum necessary to cut through) to minimise the scorching/burning off the wood. I need to learn how to focus the laser cutter with my remaining eye.