Aluminyze

xanadu

This would make an awesome gift (PM me for my shipping address), or just a really cool way to display art for your shop/office.

http://aluminyze.com

Local company here in north county SD, really cool process and not expensive. When the print is done you can drill it, etc and LEDs or standoffs and protoboards.

Anyone down for an art contest?

Heater.

I wonder if they mean aluminise?

No good anyway as their "start aluminyzing" button goes to a page that never materializes.

mindrobots

xanadu wrote: »

Anyone down for an art contest?

Youch!! Not at those prices. I've used metalic papers before for my photographs wchi gives a very unique effect. It looks like this could be interesting to play with using the silver backing. Too rich for my blood to experiment with.

Heater.

Yep, looks like "plywoodyzing" for me.

Prophead100

This would be interesting to use for a custom robot body if it was stiff enough.

erco

Heater. wrote: »

Yep, looks like "plywoodyzing" for me.

+1

Pliers

I looks to me like they are mounting a photograph to sheet of aluminium.
What do you think they mean by "infused into a sheet of aluminum,"

Heater.

Could be they have a cunning process to anodize the aluminium plate and then print the picture into the resulting oxide layer. The dye could literally "infuse" into the surface.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodizing

Heater.

Well what do you know?

You just have to get hold of the right printer: http://www.directcolorsystems.com/printer-applications/anodized-printing.php

Pliers

That is very ironic. We have a DURA JET at my day job. [h=2][/h]

xanadu

It is printed onto the metal, they were explaining it but I was too busy not paying attention. The samples I looked at felt really nice so I got an 8x10 for $30 which I thought was reasonable to make something really cool.

Plywood art sounds interesting. I need to do something artistic with electronics but also want it to be unique.

Heater.

Every time I think of anything remotely artistic LEDs creep into my mind and poof I'm back to electronics and micro-controllers. In this case plywood and LEDs came to mind.
Apparently others also have this problem:
http:// http://www.projectione.com/plylight/
http://thecolorofthin.gs/post/25418889588/build-details-for-the-aurora-led-wall
http://www.asylum.com/2009/08/26/sexy-led-lighting-birthed-from-homely-plywood/

It's hard to be unique now a days.

xanadu

Imagine this if you will. Get a nice high resolution sunset just when the stars start to shine. Print it to that aluminum place small enough so it looks really clean. Poke small holes where the stars are, say 10 of them. Put white LEDs behind like 6 of the holes, and for the other four put RGB leds run by a prop and make them twinkle.

I made a RGB LED twinkle by accident, I might fix this code up and document it and put it in projects.

This code is for one test LED, the LED I'd use would be very small, SMT possibly. The reason the intensity is different between the colors is I used the same value resistor on all of the RGB LED pins. It looks cool. I'd add in lots of random fluctuation and all four twinkle LEDs would twinkle differently as well.

CON

 _clkmode = xtal1 + pll16x           
 _xinfreq = 5_000_000
 
 RLED = 2    'Red LED Pin
 GLED = 1    'Green LED Pin
 BLED = 0    'Blue LED Pin

VAR

 long RLEDi
 long GLEDi
 long BLEDi
 long RLEDs[100]
 long GLEDs[100]
 long BLEDs[100]
 
PUB main

 cognew(Red, @RLEDs)
 cognew(Green, @GLEDs)
 cognew(Blue, @BLEDs)

 repeat

   RLEDi := 16          '16
   GLEDi := 58          '55
   BLEDi := 69          '66

      
PUB Red

 dira [RLED] := 1

 repeat
   CTRA := %0_0110<<26 + RLED
   FRQA := $7FFF_FFFF/50 * RLEDi

PUB Green

 dira [GLED] := 1

 repeat
   CTRA := %0_0110<<26 + GLED
   FRQA := $7FFF_FFFF/50 * GLEDi

PUB Blue

 dira [BLED] := 1

 repeat
   CTRA := %0_0110<<26 + BLED
   FRQA := $7FFF_FFFF/50 * BLEDi   

Anyway I have 2-3 weeks before I get the print