Good morning, it's the final day for the contest, woot!

I have some new failure modes to discuss.

Yesterday after work my patina was so dark it was terrible.

So I reconnected it to the buck converter and threw it in the copper sulfate solution with 4 caps full of miralax knockoff.

I got back to a shiny bright copper on the branches and then did a salt and vinegar patina process.

I'm pretty happy with the results on the branches. It beats the blue on the base plate hands down.

However, I brought it in this morning for a little wiring up for blinkenlight and lo and behold NONE of my lights work

I had envisioned way overdriving it with a pi zero I have on hand, but I can't get current to flow down any of those wires.

Sigh.

Interestingly, I also have a few bulbs entirely encased in copper which is not translucent.

So, even if they did light up, we couldn't tell. Current draw gives it away that they are not lighting up though.

Some great crystal formation:

I really like the patina I got on these branches:

Perhaps I should move the goalpost of having a working circuit and rename this entry sculpture success-o-rama.