I know I haven't used this blog in a long time but I finally have a project worth putting here. Unfortunately it's difficult to explain. I'm building a desk. A dark wood desk with a pane of glass flush with a wood border. The top will look something like this:
The glass will be more opaque though and the top will be thicker. And hollow. And filled with LED's. Think something like around 1:50 in this video:

In order to accomplish this I've had to go back to my high school physics lessons and get together a ragtag group of friends. David Marks, master carpenter:
Vaheed, electrical engineer without peer:
And myself, supplier of money and abuser of friends. Vaheed and I spent a few hours tonight figuring out exactly what we wanted to do as well as going over the basics of circuits and controllers. We ended up with 2 pages of diagrams and some math problems and a much clearer idea of what we were talking about. More importantly, we're now both on the same page as far as understanding what needs to happen. Here are a couple of pictures of the papers we were working on:



Now I'm going to go to sleep so I can be awake at 7am for breakfast and 8am for work. Expect another update after breakfast.