Well, they say “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
I saw this gazebo frame sticking out of a bin in front of a hire place up the street from work,
so asked if I could have it. I’m guessing it got trashed in the recent strong winds.
10 minutes later we have some raw materials for a future Halloween prop.
I had 151m of CAT6 cable left on a old reel, but the reel itself had broken. Luckily the cable was still formed in a coil shape.
I managed to carefully unroll it by attaching one end to the street light pole
outside our house and walking down to the corner of the neighbours with it.
I did this 3 times to get 3 pieces of approx 50m length each.
My neighbour did come out to ask what I was doing !
I had to untwist some of the excess curls from it.
So, 20 minutes later I have 3 nice rolls of CAT6 cable.
Cable saved to be used another day 🙂
About mid October, I decided to do a Halloween display. You can check it out here.
I’ve added a page that explains why some power supplies that come with LED light sets are dangerous. Check it out here.
Here’s some details on a cheap DJ light I got on eBay.