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Alpenglow Industries

I made a sign for a protest tomorrow - there were so many things I could say that I had a hard time narrowing it down, but this is a decent summary. I didn’t really mean to add LEDs, it just happened because I have piles of them lying around. Thx to @LaserMistress and @wizard for making great hardware and pointing out excellent LEDs to stash for when I have a need like this one.

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Original sign before the bling

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Here are more pix of the back and me holding it. I also saved the cutouts for making another sign sometime.

Carrie holds the sign in front of her, it covers her entire upper body except for her head which looks over the sign. She looks into the camera with a resigned look on her face.
The back of the sign showing the backing red and blue pieces.
The front of the sign. There’s a reflection of an overhead light in the corner and a rainbow in the middle from the holographic glitter.
The center cut pieces of letters and middle fingers from the sign.
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Here is where I admit that the red backing for OFF wasn’t planned and covers a mistake. Somehow I managed to remember to adjust the A for a stencil cut but completely missed the O. Oops I was intending on backing the hands because it made the graphic better, so I added it to OFF as well. Red seemed a good choice which made me choose blue for the hands just to throw the colors of our flag into those fascist fake patriot faces.

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Fun thing about translucent acrylic - it throws colorful shadows.

A shadow of the Fuck Off Fascists sign showing OFF in red and the raised middle fingers in blue. A human shaped shadow stands next to it.
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Not as bright in the sun of course, but that’s OK. I wrapped the excess LED strand down the handle and loosely held it in place with zip ties.

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It held up well and gots lots of love and photos at the protest. I was essentially using the LED wraps on the stake as a grip and the strip held up fine. Went through 2x single 18650 USB lipstick batteries (2200 mAh each) in 3.5 hrs. The Pixelblaze was in AP mode and I blew a friend’s mind when I was like yeah, connect to FuckOffFascists wifi, password protestsign, now go to 192.169.4.1 and change the pattern. 😂

Carrie is holding her Fuck Off Fascists with a wry smile. She’s wearing a black shirt with YES SHE CAN written in bold white letters. A tree is in the background which you can also see through some of the letters. She’s standing in a small crowd of protestors.
A protestor stands at 3/4 back profile in a red Handmaid’s Tale costume with white bonnet.
A protestor wears a rabbit mask with a long pink sign with black letters that simply says in one line “TRUMP STUPID ASSHOLE” She wears a yellow-green shirt and turquoise pants. She had great energy, she just kept walking around the intersection (in crosswalks) pointing her sign at cars.
Protestors across an intersection. One has a detailed exaggeratedly ugly black and white drawing of Trump’s fave with Dick Tater written above and below. the background for the head is red. the person next to them has a similarly drawn sign with the heads of the 6 conservative supreme court justices with the caption Supreme Injustices.
Mar 09, 2025, 12:19 AM·Public·Ivory for iOS
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Here are the animations in low light. They were still visible in the shade during the day, but not as bright of course.

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