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Nov 17, 2010 | 05:58 PM

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led light up bowtie

i made this from some left over plastic and some leds. it was an idea i had awhile back. what do you think?

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Nov 17, 2010 | 06:40 PM

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Looks great, nice and clean

Nov 17, 2010 | 06:43 PM

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Nice touch. I would try to make it for the front grille badge too.

Nov 17, 2010 | 06:45 PM

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Other than it being every so SLIGHTLY off it's still a cool idea!

Nov 17, 2010 | 06:55 PM

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Other than it being every so SLIGHTLY off it's still a cool idea!

yeah thats been bugging me a bit. sucks being a perfectionist. its just a prototype though.

Nov 17, 2010 | 07:33 PM

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I know how you feel about being a perfectionist. I noticed it was off too, however its a very unique and great idea. props

Nov 17, 2010 | 07:37 PM

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Nov 17, 2010 | 08:22 PM

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sweet looking

Nov 18, 2010 | 05:00 AM

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Damn, looks good OP. Good thinking about that.

Nov 18, 2010 | 05:21 AM

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Nice touch. I would try to make it for the front grille badge too.

that would be sick!

Nov 18, 2010 | 10:48 AM

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lookz gr8 2 me!

Nov 18, 2010 | 06:34 PM

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i like it

nice work

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Nice touch. I would try to make it for the front grille badge too.

awesome idea right there!

Nov 18, 2010 | 08:07 PM

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can u do a write up

Nov 18, 2010 | 09:15 PM

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Nice touch. I would try to make it for the front grille badge too.

that is a good idea. i may try it in the future.

Nov 18, 2010 | 09:39 PM

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can u do a write up

i dont know if i can now. but heres basically what i did. i just took some leftover plastic i had from an xbox 360 project, selected a bowtie logo and printed it. i taped it on the plastic. then i took my dremel tool with cutting disc and cut the bowtie out, filed it, smoothed it out, painted it. cut out a piece of clear acrylic and hot glued it on behind the bowtie with wax paper to diffuse it.

then i took another piece of plastic and wired up 6 blue leds with resistors, hot glued them on. then hot glued the led holder(plastic)behind it where the leds would shine directly on it. for the power source i used the ashtray bulb circuit 12v and ground.
then fastened the bowtie panel on with screws. turn the lights on and it lights up.