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Camera Eye progress

Drilling through glass turned out not to be as difficult as I had thought. I followed some advice from Anastasia Chung, a jeweler that I met with for help on some of my pieces, which was to submerge the glass piece under water while I am drilling it, to avoid it getting too hot and breaking. I also used special drillbits for drilling through glass. The results were very clean. I made one hole all the way through for the camera and one partial hole for the blinkng LED. Now I just have to figure out how to secure the battery in the back. Here is a video of the eye in action, followed by production photos.


The eye is being taped down to the tupperware (with a little bit of foam between the two, to avoid drilling through the tupperware), before being submerged in water.

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holes!
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