How to drill nice holes so you can embed LEDs in the acrylic and remove the need for a frame

looks good...how big is that glass? What do you play on doing about the projection?

You’re going to need a frame to hold that up though right? Even if its a table frame.

did you polish the drilled holes?

No, I didn’t.

i can imagine that you have to use more leds to get the same optical performance as when you would have placed the leds against a transparent edge, coz, correct me if im wrong, the drilled holes are a bit diffuse and therefor create less bright blobs

You’re right. I’m using more LEDs. I don’t have the patience to polish each hole when the cost difference isn’t that significant.

ah okay i was just wondering

how much did that piece of glass cost you? how large is it and what thickness is it? thanks.

My expertise is not drill dthe acrylic

best perfomance and IR light distribution is cutting and polish head LED

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Oswaldo

I also cut off the head of a led and glued it to the acrylic with epoxid resin, this way it seems as if the led and the acrylic were one peace, i guess I should get quite nice result with it. Here some pics:

looks nice! quite an amount of light of that little fucker

What happens if an LED blows?

the amount of light is amazing! what kind of LED did you use?
doesn’t get the angle of the LED too big when you cut the heads so that you loose sight through the surface of the acrylic?

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