Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
Starting at $320, these Blown Ups light bulbs are a little out of my price range, but very interesting. Are there any glass blowers out there who’ve made their own light bulbs? Via Cool Hunting.
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clvrmnkysays:
With halogens (or LEDs) you wouldn’t have to create a partial vacuum to make the bulbs, which is a win.
That being said, some creative collision between the techniques use to home-brew your own vacuum tubes and alightbulb with hand-wound tungsten filaments.
Because we /can/, man.
ap1.myopenid.comsays:
Anybody know if you can start with a commercial lightbulb and re-shape it?
Gregory Schoppesays:
you don’t need a vacuum, you just need a glove-box (not even a very well sealed one… think tupperware, dish washing gloves and epoxy)and a source of any noble gas (think helium or argon)
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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
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With halogens (or LEDs) you wouldn’t have to create a partial vacuum to make the bulbs, which is a win.
That being said, some creative collision between the techniques use to home-brew your own vacuum tubes and alightbulb with hand-wound tungsten filaments.
Because we /can/, man.
Anybody know if you can start with a commercial lightbulb and re-shape it?
you don’t need a vacuum, you just need a glove-box (not even a very well sealed one… think tupperware, dish washing gloves and epoxy)and a source of any noble gas (think helium or argon)