About the TARDIS light

The TARDIS (as talked about here) has a light on the top, that blinks.

Pointed out by the maker that it resembles the YouTube - Apple laptop 'sleeping' light

Apple timing:
0:01 - 1:00 -- off
1:01 - 1:15 -- ramp (exponent) up to full brightness
1:16 - 1:45 -- 100% brightness
1:46 - 2:00 -- ramp (exponent) down to off

But in the shape of a ship lamp


Examples:

• ThinkGeek Doctor Who TARDIS 4 Port USB Hub
• Thingiverse - Advanced LED Lit Badge / Keychain by builttospec

Idea is as a low hanging necklace that seems to be made out of both metal and glass.

Useful resources:
TARDIS Builders > Props: Reference > TARDIS Reference > BBC Design Plans
and
Re: Reference Pictures: The Barry Newbery TARDIS (Original) (1976)

Materials thoughts:

• the LED is blue light in a clear plastic chunk approximately 3mm x 3mm
• the materials choice for the "glass" portion is acrylic plastic
• can have real metal for the metal parts, but it'll have to be made by hand, can't cut real metal with think|haus' laser but can cut material that has a metal-like finish but is actually plastic.

Design thoughts:

• Maker thought it would work best as a pendant - managing attachment angle to the corset would be hard
• and therefore 2 dimensional would likely be best
• size, you can do in pretty much any size.... call it 2.5 tall and 2.0 wide.
• If we keep it down to under 8 LEDs, you'd get about 48 hours of continuous run time out of a CR2032 battery which typically weigh 3.2g (1/10th of an ounce)
• a single battery and ATtiny85v will drive 8 high brightness LEDs (like the stupid bright blue one that's on the front of every external hard drive enclosure)
• 8 LEDs in a radial configuration from a custom board to appear kind of like a single bulb
• LEDs point outward (parallel to the front surface of the project)
• applique layer which contains the "metal" component overlaid on the top

Base Layer: Wedgewood (3.17mm)
Lighted Layer: Ice Blue (6.35mm)
Lighted Layer encloses (with the exception of the battery area) a 1.5" x 1.0" circuit board

Lighted Layer cover of same material (3.17mm)
Applique Layer: 0.5mm

In total, it ends up being about a half inch thick (13.19mm = 0.52")

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