Homemade New Year’s eve ball

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Homemade New Year’s eve ball

By Phillip Torrone

Phillip Torrone

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Mactech’s homemade New Year’s eve ball!

It’s 20 feet tall, made of two pieces of 3/4″ EMT with a coupler that wasn’t strong enough, so I taped some shims along the joint…guy wires to keep it from keeling over sideways. There are a couple of pulleys to hoist the ball.

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By Phillip Torrone

Phillip Torrone

current: @adafruit - previous: MAKE, popular science, hackaday, engadget, fallon, braincraft ... howtoons, 2600...

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