10-27-17 I Built This Thing

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Halloween is fast approaching. I feel like this month has been absolutely flying by. I’m sad that my favorite holiday is going to be gone soon.

Sorry this topic is late. I ended up falling asleep when I got home. The last three nights I’ve only gotten 4-5 hours sleep each night. It finally caught up to me.

I’ve mentioned before that on Halloween I go to a friend’s house that actually gets Trick or Treaters. Today I went over there to help with more decorating. I also went to build a thing.

I saw a way to build fiery embers that could be used under a witch’s cauldron. Well, he happens to have a witch that could use it. It was a little bit of a learning experience for me, so I figured I’d share what not to do. I ended up making two because the first one, the lights just weren’t bright enough and they ended up being damaged when we tried to trim the foam back some.


We used a piece of thin lauan plywood, traced the top of the cauldron and then made it roughly five inches wider. Cut it out with a jigsaw. Cover the cauldron with a trash bag so it can be easily taken out after it cures.


Arranged a set of red led C9 lights around the base of the cauldron. The second time around, I made sure that all the bulbs were facing outwards or upwards. The first one had a bunch facing inwards under the cauldron that ended up not being seen at all. I also very carefully sprayed the Great Stuff expanding foam to cover all the wires, and then only lightly over the bulbs. I left a small part of the bulbs exposed to ensure it would be bright enough. The first one was completely covered. It looked neat, but just a little too dark.


Two cans of foam later, the foam is done. Sun is still out.


The same exact thing, just in the dark.


It was night by the time it cured enough to paint. I totally forgot to take a picture with the light shining on the side you’re looking at. I started with a red spray paint working mostly in the dark. Wherever the “embers” we’re glowing the brightest, I just lightly sprayed it. Where there was barely any glow, I completely covered the foam with the red. I then used a flood light to see where I could spray a flat black paint to highlight. If you look at the last two pictures, the second one has more dimension because of the highlighting.

When the sun will be out, it won’t be the prettiest thing since it looks mostly red… But it looks really cool at night. I was afraid to add too much black and make it too dull.

Tonight’s musical selection:
The soundtrack from one of my favorite PlayStation games, Wipeout XL. Also known as Wipeout 2097 everywhere else besides the US. When I had this game, I found out that you could stick the disc in a CD player to listen to the soundtrack. The first track was the game data, so you had to skip that otherwise you’d sometimes just hear a horrible noise. After that, the songs would all play fine. I was just thinking that I wish I could try some of the other games I had to see if they worked the same way.

The entire soundtrack:

If you’ve never played Wipeout, here is some gameplay from XL:

Here’s some gameplay from the Omega Collection for the PS4:

So pretty. I don’t own a PS4, so I’ve never played it. When PlayStation Home was still a thing on the PS3, they had a knockoff game in the world that I would play a lot. I was sad when they discontinued Home because there was so many fun mini games to play.