Starfield ceiling in our nursery

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:34 am

Thought some of ya'll might like this...

I'm doing a bunch of other nerdy additions to the nursery... internet webcam / baby monitor... temperature / humidity monitors... I'm making some toys too, but those won't be finished for a while. The ceiling was a LOT of work, but it came out pretty well. It is a LOT brighter in person... sitting underneath it, you could probably read by the light.

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:33 am

I don't know anything about that. Assuming it's fiber optics, is there a wire that goes to every one of those lights?

Darcler · Post by **Darcler** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:18 am

That's really awesome!

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:43 am

Ginzburgh wrote:I don't know anything about that. Assuming it's fiber optics, is there a wire that goes to every one of those lights?

Yeah... 268 fibers actually. They all end up at a light-source that is mounted in the top of the nursery closet. I drilled a pair of holes into the ceiling, so the light-source stays nice and cool (LED, so the heat isn't a huge issue). The flicker-wheel sits between the lights and the fiber-bundles... and it's all controlled by a little remote. The hard work was in drilling all the little holes and threading the fiber through it. The angles by the walls of the room were ridiculously tricky.

leah · Post by **leah** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:17 am

omfg vonkaar

that's what i think heaven looks like. well done, your kiddo is a lucky little spud.

brinstar · Post by **brinstar** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:34 pm

jfc man i want that in my room lol

Post by **Gidan** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:39 pm

That kicks ass, I just dont have the time or energy to do something like that of late.

Maeya · Post by **Maeya** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:53 pm

That is sooooo cool! I would love to have something like that in my room even

What a lucky little baby.

leah · Post by **leah** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:40 pm

brinstar wrote:jfc man i want that in my room lol

srsly.

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:48 pm

aww, I seriously thought ya'll would make fun of me for doing this.

It would have been so much easier to do in ANY other room in the house. This one was in the corner of the house, upstairs... so getting the stars close to the wall required some Spiderman-like poses, straddling the ceiling beams. Lessons learned... if any of my other kids want something like this, I think it would be a lot easier.

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:49 pm

Why would anyone make fun of you for that? I want that shit on every ceiling of my house. If we weren't already set on buying another house, I'd be spamming you with PM's right now.

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:55 pm

haha, the nerd aspect I guess. But... this IS a forum filled with ex-everquest addicts and spouses, so... I guess this fits in alright =).

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:58 pm

Just uploaded a quick clip... shows the stars if I swap in the color-wheel instead of the flicker wheel.

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:01 pm

Are those actual constellations or random?

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:09 pm

I started out doing constellations, but I freaked the fuck out and stopped. I was downloading star-charts *to scale*... had leo in proper scale and distance from cancer and hydra (in sharpie dots) and started to drill & paste. After I had 5 stars in, I realized Regulas is a magnitude1 star and I put a tiny fiber in its place :banghead:

... so I pulled, reset it and started drawing out Gemini, but then fucked up in 3 spots so I threw in the towel. Now, you can kind of pick out ursa minor, but everything else is reaaaaally random. Oh, I did do Pleiades... that's probably the only 'scale' item on the ceiling.

leah · Post by **leah** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:04 pm

Ginzburgh wrote:Why would anyone make fun of you for that? I want that shit on every ceiling of my house.

SRSLY

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:06 pm

ps

flicker pwns the colour wheel

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:14 pm

Tikker wrote:ps

flicker pwns the colour wheel

yeah, I agree...

Dimuza · Post by **Dimuza** » Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:37 pm

OK, that's fucking awesome

Jennay · Post by **Jennay** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:24 am

That's pretty awesome!

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:38 am

I don't know, people can't really make fun of nerds these days.

Maybe it's just me :dunno:

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:22 am

Because nerds win.

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:05 am

my instructable article about this project:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to- ... d-ceiling/

Kaemon · Post by **Kaemon** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:22 am

So when are you coming up to NJ to do my daughters room?

vonkaar · Post by **vonkaar** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:26 am

I'm hiring migrant workers for the next project... no way I'm climbing up

well, maybe in the next house... I get the feeling that the next kids will feel gypped if I don't do equally cool shit for their rooms.

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