O, tennenbohm

Cubicle Christmas
by jingle_balls123
Artist's statement: This wasn't really a tree... I just twisted the wires and moves around the components to make it look like a tree. The parts are just LEDs, resistors (i used 100 ohms) and a 9v battery. Wire structures are just the leads from the LEDs and resistors.

This is how I decorated my cubicle (imgur.com) (via Neatorama)

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I love the Magrittian phrase “This wasn’t really a tree… I just twisted the wires and moves around the components to make it look like a tree.”

Surely every artist should be required to put that on all their work. “This isn’t really a lady’s face, I just smeared paint around on a canvas to make it look like a lady’s face.“
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  Ceci n’est pas une pipe, n’est pas?
LintMan

Is that a short across the battery terminals? That seems odd.
- xgad
  
  If it were simply a single wire across the terminals, it would be. However, the LEDs and resistors (the beige thingys) provide a more controlled energy release through the circuit via heat and light.
  - LintMan
    
    But all that other stuff is in parallel with the LEDs and resistors. If you have (say) 2 resistors in parallel, the total resistance uses the formula:
    Rtotal = (R1 * R2) / (R1 + R2)
    So if R1 == 0, the total resistance == 0.
    
    I can only think that the wires don’t have a good connection..
    - jackbird
      
      I don’t think that’s a short, just a trick of perspective.
http://www.facebook.com/dimitrios.papagiannis Dimitrios Papagiannis

Man, I can hear a Kraftwerk Christmas rendition of that track in my head even thought they never made one. though this is close… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ChLwxy30k
http://burntheflag.ca Jardine

I’ve got a commercially made version of this that was given to me probably about 10 years ago. I wonder if it still works.