Valentine’s Day Decor

3d Printing

I 3D printed a couple heart shapes for Valentines day. For the first set I ended up using some EL Wire from Adafruit. I bought a few but only used the red one for this project:

First version with a solid center and EL strip pressed (and taped) in
The final layout removed the solid center and joins three hearts together. The EL wire snakes through them all, sort of resembles a strand of balloons
Final model
Close up of the EL wire channel

Building on the lessons learned from the first design, I modeled the second design hollow. This heart also has a deeper channel around the edge to be able to fit a larger LED strip. This fit a flexible RGB strip also from Adafruit:

LED strip facing outwards
LED strip facing towards the wall
Another shot facing the wall, with room lights off
Very similar to the above model but large channel
Close up of the large channel

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