cato, 2 months ago

I am committing to the idea. I ordered 50m of LED strip and a 600W power supply already. This is going to be cool :3

cato, 2 months ago

So far, already spent nearly 450€ on this project... this happens every time :D

But it's going to be good. Here's some of the parts involved 👀 (the train display in the back is not a part of it though)

karb, 2 months ago

@cato

450€ for 6 pieces of wood and a few packs of LED stripes? :blobfoxshocked:

cato, 2 months ago

@Karb_Derg
50m of addressable RGB LED strip - 100€
600W power supply - 50€
Wood, mounting brackets, latches etc. - 195€
Power jack - 20€
Acrylic plates - 50€

More like 415€, I accidentally added something unrelated to the calculation :D

Then I still gotta pay for an milling bit and probably for a painter to properly paint it the way I want 🙃

TheMNWolf, 2 months ago

@cato @Karb_Derg I'm looking at this list. And trying not to react to how many of those things I already have sitting in the other room.

cato, 2 months ago

Visited a friend yesterday to do some CNC routing on the front board :3 the result looks great, but I'm not gonna show it, I don't wanna spoil it just yet :>

cato, 2 months ago

Gonna laser-cut some more parts this evening, excited to see how it'll turn out. I also bought supplies yesterday for painting the thing, which I'm probably gonna start doing tomorrow.

cato, 2 months ago

What might it be :3

dingo, 2 months ago

@cato Heckspoiler fürs CatCar zwecks mehr Bodenhaftung? 😸

cato, 2 months ago

@dingo Hahaha, wäre witzig, aber ganz falsch :D

cato, 1 month ago

Painted it today, it worked out really well!

cato, 1 month ago

Annoyed as fuck because I realised that the WS2811 LED strip has the possible cut points too far apart. Bought new 2812 strip now, which means I also need to use 5V instead of 12V so the entire 160€ worth of power supply and LED strip is now useless and I spent another 200€ on the new LED strips. Also fucking annoying that now I only have about two weeks from when the LED strip arrives to when I need to have it done

Kamikazepinguin, 1 month ago

@cato watch out for the power consumption of the strip! 5v means way more amps through the same flex-pcb-trace... had strips which got dim, and at some point cremated themselves... -.-*

cato, 1 month ago

Gonna have a lot of software work to do until GPN. The delay caused by the unfitting LED strip (really this is my own damn fault) doesn't make it easier. But I can already try to do some of that work at #FSCK24 this weekend, since what I'm building for GPN is similar to another project of mine :3

cato, 1 month ago

Doing some more assembly and boy does it look good. This might be my best-looking project yet. Still not gonna spoil the surprise tho :3

cato, 1 month ago

Painted the back white and added hinges, the power input, and locks. Still missing all the internals tho :P

Detail of one side of the box showing 8 hinges
Detail of the other side of the box showing four locks and a power socket

garfieldairlines, 1 month ago

@cato this is just a massive powerbank, the 128 USB PD sockets for the USB pizza oven is on the back.

cato, 1 month ago

@garfieldairlines #PDBrick v2 @LeoDJ 👀