I finally finished the hakkero, at least to the point that I’m happy to call it finished.

I ended up changing a few things about the design: I used additional cut Acrylic pieces in place of the filled engraving, mainly this was because the particular laser cutter I was using does not like doing anything more complicated than vector lines. However I thing this alternative ended up looking much better anyway.

After much buggering about trying the vacuum form some reflective HIPS for the LED mount I ended up using one made out of white HIPS. I think the reason the mirrored HIPS failed was a combination of the reflective surface or the fact that both vacuum forming machines I used had dodgy seals.

The photo above shows the two halves of the hakkero just before final assembly.

The LED’s are a strip of NeoPixel compatible LED’s (I can’t remember the part number and can’t seem to find where I bought them) controlled by an Arduino UNO clone, eventually I plan to have several lighting modes controlled by the switches on the back panel and the option to control it over MIDI.

At the moment all I’ve done is upload my NeoPixel lighting firmware until I get the rest of the code written (mainly getting Luna finished).