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James Brown

Have you ever wondered how many strands are in one of these tat shop fibre optic wands?

A picture of a tat shop fibre optic wand
30 June at 6:06 | Open on mastodon.social
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James Brown

526. There are 526 individual strands.

The wand has now had each strand of fibre individually threaded through a hole in a jig of some sort.
30 June at 6:07 | Open on mastodon.social
James Brown

I guessed 512 or under, annoyingly.

30 June at 6:08 | Open on mastodon.social
James Brown

I’ll have to rethread it and put the 14 extra around the edge.

A fuzzy closeup of the business end of 526 cheap plastic fibres. 14 of them are glowing (because I’m shining a torch on the other end). They’re in a cluster with a couple of outliers.
30 June at 6:16 | Open on mastodon.social
James Brown

Nothing like Kapton tape to make you feel like you're doing Technology.

A bundle of optical fibres; tightly clustered in a circle at one end, separated into two rectangular grids at the other. The strands are capped off with lengths of yellow tape.
6 July at 7:16 | Open on mastodon.social
James Brown

I encapsulated the ends without breaking too many. Now I just need to pixel map them.

6 July at 7:22 | Open on mastodon.social
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