Those look really nice dude.

 

Haha.fokker. :b but I know what you meant by its not fun. I bet you had volcano in your studio with my hvacs.

Pepsi is the daewoo of coke.

 

I think that white braided loom is referred to as snake skin. Why make these for a Scion? They have a factory cup holder glow kit don't they? I am sure it does look better though. Stick a bottle of water with the label off in there and let it glow, would make a better picture.

 

^^ Why? because he's been helping me along the way. Together we perfected the laser etching, 2 stage, power intensity and everything. He wanted it because quite frankly, there isn't anything that comes close to the perfection of this method we've come up with.




Although the scion's cup holders are quite similar, but, look at it like this, if you did the auto-cad for a new fender on the market, wouldn't you use the new fender instead of the stock fender?

I'm telling you that for sure, the quality, uniformiy, and brightness of this method we've perfected cannot be touched without bad results.

I don't mean it to come across as I'm tooting my own horn.

Standard notched acryllic has 1/2 illuminated and 1/2 dim. This method provides a very constant illumination across the whole surface of the disturbance.

There has been a lot of R&D into this laser etching method and ALOT of pieces of wasted acrylic, so I'm pretty psyched about it and I personally have no respect for notched acrylic light channels anymore.

This is the first project I've completed using this method. I'm really psyched about the results.



thanks!



HKC busting me out again! aww.. Yeah, your HVACs were pretty difficult, it all worked out with no blown up LEDs though. Coke sucks, trust me.

 

hmm i wish i could see it in person. in all the pictures the light looks like its just in little sections around the rings. but i can tell you put alot of work in to these. good job man, hopefully you can start selling them.

 

^^ Thanks, but It is just in little sections around the rings. I didn't want it to be fully even and be a glowing ring. I wanted it to have defined disturbances. The evenness I was referring to was in light loss from one side of the angel eye to the other.

The problems I was facing origonally was the rings would be dimmer at one side then the other. We finally came up with this to challenge that and make for perfecly even brightness of each disturbance from one end to the other of the acryllic. Even on larger rings (tiburon high beams prototypes), it still appears that there is no noticable or recordable depriciation of light at the furthest point from the LED which is better then any currently available production angel eye can say for the RDTiburon currently.

I tried hand notching, heat bubbles, sanding, scuffing and a few other methods before going with the laser method. Even with laser etching evenly spaced across the entire ring, it didn't look as good as this does. The broken spacing is better at attracting the eye then an evenly spaced groove around the entire ring. IMO it looks way better then the single line evenly spaced types.

Also, because the laser burns the plastic instead of gouging it, the acryllic remains almost completly transparent so you don't really see it until you turn on the light.

It is definately something you'd have to see in person though. The camera does not do any justice. It adds light where there is none to the naked eye and removes some where there is light.



















You can see two standard LEDs in the pictures, one on my monitor and one on the hard drive.

 

I'm bored... here's some more pix.


Exactally as ordered.

 

I can't even take pics of my vent halos. My camera just turn the light purple and those look perfect blue. Guess im gonna have to keep trying to mess with the settings. O/T...these look nice man.

 

No offense but I'd rather have a cleaner look than rings in the cupholders, especially when they're off. And doesn't this push your drinks farther out of the cupholder? Is there any plexi for a new bottom in the cupholder? But then again, I might be biased.

 

^^ They come stock like this on scions. Scion has an option for this when you buy the car. They made the cup holders deeper for that reason. The person whom this was made for will be laser cutting some plexi for a false bottom. Overall it will still deeper then our RD pop-out cup holders and it now secures the can in a single place, rather then letting it slide around about 2 mm The can still cannot tip over.

Functionally, it raises the can up about 1/8" and secures it. It raises bottles up about 1/4" with no real impact on holding ability. Fassionably, it evenly illuminates the cup holder without bright spots

The rings are clear when they are off. There are no white lines like on machined acryllic. These are laser etched, and do not look bad at all when off.