Artificial Tiberium Cluster

The Tiberium still glows happy after a year :-)

I'm still very happy with the outcome of the "real deal" with mountain christal.

But since i recently got a 3D printer i might try the real artificial Tiberium :)

This is the final Log Entry for this project.

Please find some more photos below.

I also tried to get some photos but it is to difficult :/

I hope you enjoyed this Project!

This post is mostly about the crafting part of this project.

In general i just used up 5 Pins of the Atmega to connect them via series Resistor to a LED. I soldered enameled copper wire to the 5 LEDs and connected them to the #The Atmega Hearth.

You may connect the LEDs to your own Controller PCB.

LED with enameled copper wire.

This is a 5x2 pinheader with the LEDs already connected.

After the LEDs were hot glued, i glued two cubes below the cluster for better stability and mount for the PCB. I secured all fragile parts with hot glue since all below is buried in planting clay.

I also drilled a hole into the planting pot - so no cable obscures the upper view - you can only see it from behind..

Next step is to fill the planting pot with Seramis Planting Clay (Advantages: Looks fine, is not conductive, looks more clean than soil) and bury the stuff inside.

Stay tuned for the final outcome!

In the Weekend i visited the "Welt der Kristalle" ("World of crystals" http://www.welt-der-kristalle.de/)

For americans it would be "neiborhood" i took about half an hour to get there.

I was stunned by those big crystalls i never seen such great crystals before. I just added a few impressions below.---------- more ----------

here some promotional text:

Dive into the impressive world of the gigantic crystals. Sparkling precious stones and about 3000-kg heavy high gigantic crystals from the whole world can be marvelled at in the museum and be touched partly also.
With some crystals giving a hand and touching is expressly permitted. Get to know these unbelievable natural miracles, understand the form and colour variety and feel the radiation of these coloured minerals. The probably biggest and nicest amethyst druse of the world, but also many small and rare treasures of the earth wait for you! Even the shop was amazing. If you are in need for additional minerals, there is also a storage hall nearby were you could get almost every thing you could imagine.

At the Webpage they have a funny flag for English language, i have no clue which country it represents :-D

Exterieur

First look into the Museum

"Marienglas" ( Selenite ) This has a width of > 2m

This is a smaller sample of Aquamarin.

"Bitte nicht Berühren!!!"

I haven't catched those that great.. visit the Museum for more Impressions, if you can't visit at least the Website of the Museum.

And finaly i got one cluster. Stay tuned ;)

Since acrylic and glass pieces seem unobtainable, i may try to use a mountain crystal cluster ("Bergkristallgruppe")

http://www.shop.hde.ch/cgi-bin/shop/front/eidamo.cgi?func=anzeige&wkid=1523135365599062&rub1=Bergkristall Kristall&rub2=Bergkristall Gruppe

I may visit that shop or http://www.welt-der-kristalle.de or http://www.kristallkeller.de/.

In fact it seems there are many mineral traders around, but those are the nearest.

Find it here below.

// Tiberium Sketch
// This sketch will fade a LED in and out ("breathing")
// SW PWM for Atmega16
// 2017-02-19 Stefan-Xp

int LED_Pin = A6;       // Pin Number of the desired LED Output
int Periode = 10000;    // in µs, so the PWM will have ~100Hz
int OnTime = Periode;   // Ontime, determines how bright a LED will appear
int Step = 40;          // Stepsize, determines how fast the Transistion will be

void setup() {
  // Initialise LED Pin
  pinMode(LED_Pin, OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
  // Set to On
  digitalWrite(LED_Pin, LOW);
  // Wait the Time which the LED should stay on
  delayMicroseconds(OnTime);
  // Set to Off
  digitalWrite(LED_Pin, HIGH);
  // Wait the remeining Time of the Cycle
  delayMicroseconds(Periode - OnTime);
  
  // Determine if the Stepdirection should be changed 
  // (>= Period Time (100%) or below 30%)
  if(OnTime + Step >= Periode || OnTime <= Periode*0.30)
    Step = -Step;
    
  // Increase / Decrease OnTime
  OnTime += Step;
}

Have a nice Sunday!

It seems a lot harder than i thought to obtain some Tiberum Crystals.

Unfortunately I can't send my Haversters ;-) on the other hand it also be rather unhealty...

First I thought about getting one printed.. but i don't want to spend about €374.75 - €439.73 for this project, and it wouldn't be so shiny anyway :-(

Then I thought i may obtain some Acrylics and edit it to look like Tiberium.

In case i found that:

https://www.plexiglas-shop.com/DE/de/stab-636y4svddnd/plexiglas-fluoreszierend-gruen-gt-gw4kf4b3q7l~p.html

The color is already nice but 10mm Diameter is almost a bit small and it also don't feature edges.

On the other Hand it might be possible to lasercut some acrylic plate to look like Chrystals.

Or it might be possible to cast some acrylics... put i fear that this might be also unhealty

Or it might be possible to grow some crystals.

Or i find some other ingenious ways ... ;-)