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I am developing and learning about light transfer in bent acrylic. These are somewhere between the new coloured plastic strip LED and laser cut signs, and edge-lit LED signs. I have also been resisting the urge to follow my heart in recreating the wooden base moodlight, focusing on an MVP that is all laser cut. I have developed an MVP, see below, but my heart resists MVPs, and I’m a stubborn donkey, and the design challenge at the moment is making 3-panel LED signs that can rotate their panes 180 degrees to swap between hanging or standing on a table. I think I have solved this challenge by using a PCB sandwich with 0.5 and 2.5mm thick boards, but the question remains about whether I develop that or not… My current priority is getting to a market with a decent stall, which means ironing out all sorts of bugs. Also, I would like to embrace button head screws again: socket heads are too bulky, I feel, at the moment. Also, I would like to experiment with two way tints… And for dust: a cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68c004903c5d891a77728d67/62bcf864-69cf-4625-a574-8e93e69a31ed/note+colours.png Blog - Development phase 1 - Programming FFTs for synesthesia Part of the bugs mentioned above: my synesthesia mode kept crashing in the spectrogram. I traced this down to a log function and an infinite variable: solved with a try/except handler. To get better differentiation of notes and colours, I spent time thinking about and picking colours to represent notes. The task was challenged by the fact that the colours change appearance when they are next to one another. My better half’s eyes strongly recommended a colour key, see aside. I thought about having a smooth spectrum of colours, but I also like the idea of sharps and flats being a less saturated version of their respective whole(?) notes. 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