Uhm… Well, Christmas to me is not about trees nor chunky Nick, so I’m fine with it.
Here we have ‘sinterklaas’ (santa Claus) old-land-style, on december the 5th.
He also has a book and judges like he’s God though…
But, he gives presents!
It has a mixed up history.
There once was this Catholic priest in Turkey somewhere, who took some care of some children or something.
and pronounced saint by Rome or something, or more like a derived folkloric version, joined with some ancient winter half-god concepts etc…
In the US this Santa Claus was somehow put on the date of Christmas, which in itself is just a ‘christened’ solstice celebration…
Coca Cola made him wear red eventually, so they say, but sinterklaas also wears red, but it’s typical Catholic dress, like a pope almost, with a mytre (originally the fish-mytre from Dagonism) and the sceptre.
Wavien collar…
Tomorrow I will check the Christmas decoration stuff for a suitable plastic bauble.
sounds doable and easy, but has anyone actually produced results? The emitter is SO SMALL, a variation of 1mm could reduce the effectiveness of this by the tens of percentages.
Yes, someone like Old Lumens, or 18sixfifty, DBCstm did it. In the pictures he showed that you could see the light reflected back to form a small circle and to use that to help center the reflector to shine right back at the reflector.
How nice and how big of a hemisphere could a ball drill make? I don’t have any fancy tools, but I have a dremel and a cheap hand drill, and if there is a huge ball bit that can carve out a hemisphere out of aluminum, maybe that would be an option. The larger the sphere, the less perfect it has to be, and you can use some polish to shine it up I would imagine. Not as good as a fancy vacuum metal depositing machine thingamajig, but it’s something.
Sorry to bring this post back up, but i have done some DIY collars so far and they actually produce results! I put aluminum foil around rubber bouncy balls then I hot glued it. Since it is not perfect, I could see a faint image of the word noctigon and some red. But the beam is more intense! I made around 15 and picked the best one. If you just want that extra throw but do not want to pay $50 you can try doing this. Hope this helped!
I drew a happy face on my noctigon with a marker and you can see the face pretty clearly on a wall with one of the bad collars that I made (bad at focusing light back to emitter so it gets reflected back at the places around the pcb). This got me thinking of getting more flood by placing a flat piece of aluminum foil to reflect the light forward because of how bad the collar was at focusing the light on the PCB. But it was pretty much useless. The light was no where near bright enough.
Even my crappy collar made (eye visible results) image what a real collar can do! Anyone got ideas other than ornament balls? I cant find any balls that are under 25mm
Anyone know how to AR coat things? aspheric lenses coated with AR material on the flat side would be really nice
the problem is to get this thing to focus at the right spot. It is a hit and miss for me. I had to take it apart and put it back together over 10 times to get some decent results.
One of the big factors that gave me the motivation to keep trying is the tint shift. Many people say that a wavien collar shifts color temp down. It used to be ugly greenish because the tint was cool white 2B, domed. But now is is nice and yellow! My camera takes the pictures green tho ):
Interesting about the tint shift. I guess that makes since though. Some of the escaping blue light that gets reflected back to the phosphor should get converted.
It strikes me that there must be a pretty good margin for error in one of these. We're talking really small reflector close to the emitter. I imagine you can really only design a reflector to reflect back to a point source, all the other light hitting the reflector from parts of the emitter outside of the that point will reflect to all kinds of different directions. Some hitting the emitter and some not.
