Over at Instructables, Mike Galloway posted a howto for creating a lovely, twinkling star field ceiling using fiber optics. Inspired by a star field ceiling he saw at a movie theater, Galloway decided to install one in his soon-to-be-born baby's room! "How to create a fiber optic starfield ceiling"
DIY: Fiber optic star field on your ceiling
Over at Instructables, Mike Galloway posted a howto for creating a lovely, twinkling star field ceiling using fiber optics. Inspired by a star field ceiling he saw at a movie theater, Galloway decided to install one in his soon-to-be-born baby's room! "How to create a fiber optic starfield ceiling"
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Perfect! Now Mike Galloway can make sure his new child will never produce melatonin!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin#Roles_in_humans
(See sub-heading 'Light dependence')
That is amazing. I saw a concrete counter top awhile back that used a similar method for creating stars in the surface, and ever since then, I've thought about doing something like that with the ceiling in a room of my house. Maybe not a bedroom, but in a common area like the living room or a rec room. His looks great. I hope his daughter likes it.
We took the decidedly lower-tech road of adhering glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling. Although not anywhere near as cool as this, I can vouch for their popularity among the preschool (and previously toddler and infant) set :)
Because people have always slept where there are no stars or moon, right?
To do:
Research luminosity and colour of all bright stars surrounding the Milky Way.
Write software for generating random, 'dappling' luminosity.
Retask smoke machine to produce little, fluffy clouds.
Modify heater with fan to produce warm, wispy breeze.
Record sound of light breeze blowing through the eaves of tall trees and create 8 hour loop (perhaps including the sound of distant crickets, chirping softly).
Install fibre optic system in conical, rotating ceiling panel.
...NO wait. LASERS!!
I too have fiber optic stars on my ceiling. My poor mother crawled into the attic in the middle of summer to poke the threads through holes drilled in the ceiling. When the motor in the light box is running, it sounds like a distant neighbor is using a chainsaw. But the effect is beautiful!