I’ve been avoiding 3d printing for no rational reason so I’ll probably cut something out of sheet metal and paint it.
I don’t know if it would make much difference if it was matte or glossy, i feel like matte would look better? It would probably make a better beam pattern if I swapped the reflector out with an orange peal instead of smooth mirror and masked the lenses directly but I haven’t gotten that far yet, keep running into ubox issues and rolling back from finishing it off to designing the circuits.
Have you seen this little guy?
Small enough that you could use two or three of them and still have more leftover room then the one in your pic and the voltage is right?
I found this out the hard way too! Turns out that if you’re using silk (and maybe other stuff too, idk) that the white or non pigmented parts will completely disappear, the transparency of the fibers will blend with the epoxy and any coloring the fabric itself was giving to the graphic will vanish (as it was an illusion anyway). Whatever it is on will then influence the colors of the fabric. For me it all turned shades of red because it was a red deck. On yours I can clearly see the darkening from the black on the deck as well as the white flux logo.
I may have done it the hard way again but I found just laying the fabric down how I wanted it then putting a glob of epoxy in the center and gently working it outwards with a spreader worked great and kept the distortion down. The stuff I was using had a decently long working time though.
This board turned out fire af. Congrats on an amazing build bro!
Haha yeah that’s the exact type of fabric I was using. Lesson learned I think for the next one I’ll go with what everyone is saying and use white epoxy instead of paint also, I think that’s the more durable method. Thank you though, enjoying the board a ton so far!
4 AA’s I mayy have already broken it riding mt tabor. It’s okay, ordering a longer strip this time and gonna 3d print something to hold the battery box in place.
My last puck case was starting to see some wear and tear for all the crashing I’ve been doing recently, so I decided to print another one. I wanted this one to be shiny with fancy paint and stuff, so I tried out a technique I found online recently to smooth out the print. I covered the whole case with about 2-3 coats of CA glue, letting it dry in between coats.
Yup, thats what I did with mine. Though I use a programable light strip. For regular use it will be fine, but I busted mine up by repeatedly hitting the bottom of my deck when hopping curbs, which is were I mounted my light.
I think for the next one I’ll go with what everyone is saying and use white epoxy instead of paint also, I think that’s the more durable method. Thank you though, enjoying the board a ton so far!
I mayy have already broken it riding mt tabor. It’s okay, ordering a longer strip this time and gonna 3d print something to hold the battery box in place.
