Building a Luminous Price Board for the Gear Vending Machine

I built a nice Gear Vending Machine for Unzyme, to sell band merchandise at our experiments. Soon I realized that the merchandise system needed a cool way to present the prices. I listed a few requirements that had to be met. It needed to be…

  • Compact and lightweight
  • Cool-looking and attention-stealing
  • An erasable surface that can be written on with a whiteboard marker
  • Illuminated
  • Battery powered

And so the Luminous Price Board was born. It’s still just a prototype, but it already looks pretty cool! The prices aren’t final…

These are the building materials for the Luminous Price Board. Butt Hinge?
These are the building materials for the Luminous Price Board. Butt Hinge?
This Luminous Price Board is made out of plexi glass and LED lights.
This Luminous Price Board is made out of plexi glass and LED lights.

Materials needed for this project

  • Plexi glass (30 by 30 centimeter blocks, 3 mm thick)
  • Two pairs of hinges (the other pair is not visible in this prototype)
  • Three battery powered LED lights
  • Epoxy glue
  • Whiteboard marker and eraser

Watching a lot of Mythbusters really inspires to build stuff!

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