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Create Stunning Illuminated Art from Rasterbated Images

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One of the great things about the holidays is seeing all the cool gifts Makers create for their loved ones. Mike Becker created this eye-catching illuminated wall art for his father-in-law. This project worked for him because it wasnโ€™t very expensive, but still looks very cool.

Becker used a free rasterbator program to turn a photo of a stag into a gridded design of dots, which he then transferred to MDF. It took him two days to drill out all the holes in the pattern. Once that was done, he added a frame and some cheap LED strip lighting to illuminate the image.

There is no โ€œhardest partโ€ to this project according to Becker, but โ€œtedious, mind numbing, and time consumingโ€ are some words that come to mind after the process of measuring and placing each individual dot with a ruler to the nearest 0.5mm. Comments on the project already include some thoughts on how to automate, or at least ease this part of process, by using a CNC machine. Part of the charm of this project, however, is how commonplace the tools are.

โ€œ[This project] requires minimal tools (drill, skill saw, glue, and a ruler), minimal know-how, and itโ€™s relatively inexpensive for raw materials.โ€ Becker says, all qualities that make this a good entry-level project for beginners. And you certainly canโ€™t complain about his amazing results, either.

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