Here's a video of it in action...
Here's a group I made for my LED lights and things, if you like my LED designs, join the group and you'll be updated as I upload new ones... I plan on making a lot more logos just like this. So if you have and suggestions, please tell me and I'll make it.
http://www.thingiverse.com/groups/things-with-leds/things
This is a extruded LED Makerbot logo I printed on my dual extruder... I took a JPEG of the Makerbot logo and traced it in Solidworks... I then extruded and filleted the letters and saved them as their own STL to be used in dual extrusion... I then designed a plate around the letters, added holes for screws and save that as its own STL... Lastly, I design a shell to go around the plate and letters, the shell has aligned screw holes so it can be fastened to the plate...
I then printed the shell in regular ole black PLA on my Rep 2... And I did the dual extrusion using the same black PLA for the plate and I used Bendlay (link below) to print the letters... I used Bendlay because it is extremely translucent (91% of light passes through)...
I then hooked up an RGB LED strip, wrapped it around the inner shell and hooked it up to an IR receiver so it can be controlled with a remote...
I've also made the following logo's, designs for LED hookup...
SuperMan: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:905146
StormTrooper: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:905142
Punisher: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:905140
Transformers Autobot: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:903550
Transformers Decepticon: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:903558
IronMan: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:904807
SpiderMan: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:904822
Jeep Emblem: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:908360
Batman: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:908353
Mortal Kombat Logo: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:904811
Makerbot 'M' logo: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:903428
Apple Logo: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:903448
Android Robot: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:903441
MakerFaire Robot: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:900647
I <3 3DPing w/beating heart: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:900678
MB_LOGO_Case.STL | 208.2KB | |
MB_LOGO_Letters.STL | 1.1MB | |
MB_LOGO_Plate.STL | 230.6KB |