NSomniac's Crazy Projects: DIN Logo

[N Somniac]

Im always creating crazy things, either for the car, home, music, for collecting dust on shelves or just for the hell of it..... So I'd thought I'd share some with u guys.. so I want to put a DVD player in the bottom half of my double DIN slot.. right now all I have is a cubby hole with a broken door... I want to put the disc drive of the Xbox in there sometime....but I need to get the Xbox first right... well my Kenwood V907 Brain went out... and as im constantly troubleshooting.. I think... if this thing isn't going to work for a while.. I need something better to look at ... I have a good deal of plexi just laying around (a friend of mine's mom owns a shop and Throws away Large amounts of scrap - like 3'X4' slabs) so I thought I'd fill in that bottom half and rid of the broken door... First i rip it out, tear off the door, and cut the "box" that the door was attached to, nice and smooth. then using the door as a template, I cut my plexi (1/25")... then I painted the inside of the container with chrome (riiiiiiight) paint.. finally a good use for this rip off paint. I then doodle up a Toyo Logo on 3" tape.. I apply the tape to a sheet of regular glass (it's amazing what I have just laying around in my lil shop - spare bedroom turned into garage). This way i can cut out the logo with a razor like you would a design with tint.


then I remove on side of the protective paper off the plexi, and apply the "taped" logo. I apply a couple of coats of my Fusion Blue that's in my car.. when flipped over you can see the taped logo with a clean glossy look on top.. then i removed the tape revieling a toyota logo hole in the paint.. of course I cover this with mirror tint, giving me a mirrored toyota logo... of course this new logo is only tinted with nothing behind it.....

allowing me to put a light behind it to be seen at night... since I didn't use those color changing 194 LEDs, I thought I would put them to use. with very few dabs of hot glue, I apply the new logo piece back to the inner chrome cubby hole, and remount.. nice lil clean logo, that lights up at night.. something you wont see anywhere else.. I tried to get pics of the nighttime view... but the LED isn't that bright (yes - a waste of money) so later I'll wire up some of my 8000mcd LEDs that will fade from white to blue.. now as much as I like this.. I want to make more, with different logos, and maybe back it with magnets to become interchangable...



Heres just a crazy N Somniac project... I encourage others not to be affraid to try anything...

I've already got an idea to replace it... I dont know if any of you have seen the scrolling LED belt buckles out there (6 programable phrases, scrolls left to right or up and down), but I ordered a blue one last night on eBay, and guess what, it's a perfect fit (a friend brought over her pink one last night)... so it'll be the same idea, but instead of just lights coming out of no where..... funny phrases...

I plan on making a TN logo just for fun...

[dna59]

Nice idea. Looks good.

[Grayguy]

very ammusing, good job

[T3vzGfeF]

very nice work..

[RedPhoenix]

Let DIY prosper

[dna59]

Lately TN memebers have been very original coming up with some very cool stuff.

[Knailgun]

looks good...I'm keeping mine black though

[02RSX90camry]

that's pretty cool. lights look kinda funny (not enough light maybe) but a very cool idea. And great job doing it yourself.

[N Somniac]

thanx, like i said, its just a temp fix, when i get the money i'll either put a DVD player there or the disc drive of the xbox that will be mounted in the passenger side airbag

[95camguy]

nice work