Hello all!
Jason, Kiran, and I have been hard at work making a polished version of our Art Affair piece. To give you some background information you can check this out to see what we built last winter. Since then, we've gotten the go-ahead to rebuild it to install it in the new d.School (Peterson, bldg 550). If you haven't gotten a chance to check out the building, we would highly recommend it. It's quite design-y and meant to foster creativity.
To install it, instead of having a dark box for the environment, it will be free-hanging from the ceiling. Thus we needed to hide the wires in the tubes, make the lights visible indoors, and choose wood that would match the ambiance and decor of the d.School.
We're in the midst of construction, but we think we solved all those problems by frosting all the tubes/lights and then plugging the light part with polyethylene to light pipe the LEDs. So when you run your hand across the hanging tubes/lights, two inches of the each of the tubes light up (rather than just a point like before). The light is much more visible and the wires are hidden. As for the wood, we chose a nicely finish apple-ply (which is another type of Europly). It matches wood seen throughout the d.School.
As for how far we are, the holes in the wood have been cut out by a computer numerically controlled machine (CNC router) and all the lights are complete. It's now a matter of assembly and some more touching up.
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