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James Brown (ancientjames@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 18:34:56 JST James Brown

Have you ever wondered how many strands are in one of these tat shop fibre optic wands?
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1. A picture of a tat shop fibre optic wand
  https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/704/064/217/461/949/original/cb2412fccd48be49.png
- James Brown (ancientjames@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 18:34:54 JST James Brown
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  Why did I do this?
  In conversation about 5 months ago permalink
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  1. Some sort of contraption that turns a slightly crappy led matrix display into a very crappy fibre optic display. It's playing Rick, of course. It does at least have a kind of beige 8 bit vibe to it.
- James Brown (ancientjames@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 18:34:55 JST James Brown
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  526. There are 526 individual strands.
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  1. The wand has now had each strand of fibre individually threaded through a hole in a jig of some sort.
    https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/704/068/980/590/814/original/0f3ffd35a1c91ee0.png
- James Brown (ancientjames@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 18:34:55 JST James Brown
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  I guessed 512 or under, annoyingly.
  
  In conversation about 5 months ago permalink
- James Brown (ancientjames@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 18:34:55 JST James Brown
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  I’ll have to rethread it and put the 14 extra around the edge.
  In conversation about 5 months ago permalink
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  1. A fuzzy closeup of the business end of 526 cheap plastic fibres. 14 of them are glowing (because I’m shining a torch on the other end). They’re in a cluster with a couple of outliers.
    https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/704/097/681/335/816/original/8a9051d5cfdfe69d.png
- James Brown (ancientjames@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 18:34:55 JST James Brown
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  Nothing like Kapton tape to make you feel like you're doing Technology.
  In conversation about 5 months ago permalink
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  1. A bundle of optical fibres; tightly clustered in a circle at one end, separated into two rectangular grids at the other. The strands are capped off with lengths of yellow tape.
    https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/738/299/842/847/868/original/2dd575edf0d8bc57.jpeg
- James Brown (ancientjames@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 18:34:55 JST James Brown
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  I encapsulated the ends without breaking too many. Now I just need to pixel map them.
  In conversation about 5 months ago permalink
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  1. A closeup of a circle of fibre optic strands lit by a distant video source. They're organically clustered, and vary in size and shape. You can't make out what video is playing - it's just a scattering of dots - but if you assume it's Rick Astley you're probably not going to go far wrong.
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