Mirror “Tube” – LED Optical illusion

For a regular hexagon is formed by six corners of 120 degrees. To achieve proper form the end of each piece of wood finishes with a slope angle of 60 degrees and 40 cm high plateau of the trapezoid.

Step 6:

IMPORTANT!

Remember to follow the length of the plateau of the trapezoid. As I mentioned in my case it is 40 cm so I can mount the PCB with LEDs with a length of 39 cm. In your case it may be a different size but, comply with what length card or combination of boards to use. If you use  LED Strip is not required to comply with such factors, only inside tour of the frame.

Gathering all the shingles to each other on the mirror frame shape – regular hexagon.

Step 7:

Each of them has an internal groove which to place the board with LEDs sizes / 39 cm x 1.5 cm /. Flap is 7 mm deep (as the height of the LED board). If you use LED Strip, flap is not binding or it may be quite shallow – about 1 mm (almost enough to hide the double sided tape on the back of the strip), but not deep enough to hide the LEDs.

Edge to the back of the mirror can save it if you find a better way to attach the mirror, but in any event not glued to the frame because the windshield will be stuck in this case if you need to replace or repair any of boards with LEDs opening the mirror becomes impossible.

Step 8:

Once you paint them all with plain black spray glued with glue all 6 mounting rails to form a hexagon. Boards tucked in groove provided them solder each other with short wires observing the colors of buses R with R, G with G, B with B and + with +. From one of the sides of the hexagon idrilled hole to lead the LED power cable circuits which will later connect to the controller. If you use LED Strip simply glue the runners made earlier for this purpose and bring out the frame cables.

View of adhesive frame without glass – front
In yellow visible groove provided for LED circuits.

Step 9:

View of frame – rear
In yellow visible groove provided for LED panels and “nest” provided a mirror on the back of the frame.

Step 10:

I ordered to a glass company to cut a hexagon of my mirror glass for glass packs (without excessive color / brown or green /). He ordered a glass 5 mm larger in diameter than the outside of the frame to have a good overlap with the side mirrors that will put more later.

I glued glass mirror mounting adhesive on the front of the frame

View of mirror – front:

Step 11:

View of mirror – rear
In the mirror glass side of the glass is noticeably better properties mirror (mirror coating is applied on the country) on the other. Experimental realized that this was it’s better to be on the inside of the mirror to the LEDs. To reinforce mirror properties and took the outside mirror foil for car windows and taped on the outside of the glass. This reinforced the ability to look at myself in the mirror during the day and svetodeodite properties to reflect better at night.

And mirror cut to size appropriate to enter the nest that predicted. Once I put it in its cradle on the edge between the glass and frame it taped with duct tape. Thus strengthened it does not fall and I opened it without difficulty have an ace.

Step 12:

Before you close the mirror finally cleaned both windows so that no dust to close between the two glasses. Emphasize the fact that visible dust is not visible during the day can be seen very clearly in the mirror tunnel.

Finally, cut out five mirrors the size of the external frame pages and pasted them from outside the country and to hide the visible wooden part. At the top of the frame does not put a piece of glass as there put two D shaped brackets which attached the mirror hanging on the wall. Side mirrors have given quite finished mirror and made really good-looking aesthetic.