No hacking here.

The blind dog needed some guard rails, and I needed some hand rails on the deck, so I took some time to glue together a gluelam from garbage wood scraps from behind the shed, and then ordered a string of LEDs. When the red lamps came with glass hurricanes that were comically small, I printed a hurricane (vase mode) with PLA to check on the diffusion. First I wrapped the LED strip around the glass hurricane, but then the LEDs were polka-dottish, so I printed a smaller core to get farther away from the walls, and the turned out pretty cute.

For subtle wiring for the 12v and data lines I used 18 - 3  furnace wire. I think it turned out pretty well.

Took me a few weeks, so I didn't get much done on the tree.