apocalypse dragonfly shelf
The assignment from my 10 year-old son was a dragonfly that was also a shelf.
It’s not shown here, but I later replaced the painted wooden shelf with a 3/16″ steel plate of the same size. Because magnets.
(CMOS sensor in my phone obviously didn’t like the blue lights.)
Materials:
Brass and malleable iron pipe
Copper gas manifolds
Copper wire fairy lights
Drip-feed oiler from a hit-miss engine
Chandelier sockets
…and a lot of voltage switching. The fairy lights in the tail are 3.7v DC, the eyes are 12v DC, and the candelabra bulbs are 120v AC.