Vintage Lantern Restoration...with a twist.

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@Iliketomakestuff Год назад

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@Uncle_Buzz Год назад

I would find a way to add bird sounds and other nature sounds.

@darthvader232003 Год назад

I'd add a flame effect to make it more natural

@jamesyan9436 Год назад

I'm loving all the out of focus shots in this video lol

@tophlaw4274 Год назад

love the repurposing of old retro stuff to give them new life & not to mention the design aesthetics to keep things as stock as possible! I wish you had moved forward with your acrylic bending as I'd love to see that & it would make the lantern appear as though it still had the glass (also keeps the vellum & stuff inside protected from accidental incursions). as far as features are concerned: > phone app to allow BT control of lighting modes/animations; > more LEDs (aligned vertically around the central spire) so it'll be much brighter & actually useful outdoors ~segments can be turned off to conserve power aside from brightness controls; > capacitive sensors can be added so that touching a predetermined spot on the shell housing the electronics activates controls (lighting mode, strip on/off cycle, etc); > sound-reactive pulsing lights (easily accomplished with a sound module); cheers! & looking forward to your next project!

@jwharris417 Год назад

That intro scene Bob. You are a marvelous nerd. Thank you for sharing your fun with the world.

@tocov Год назад

I used to shine my trumpet SO MUCH when I was a teenager.

@timwalrath4540 Год назад

I was thinking making it so the LEDs could flicker like a flame. Not sure if that’s possible but I think of like the fake candles which would be awesome for the lantern.

@tjrockefeller4324 Год назад

To add to the effect, you could also add sound effects to sound like the original oil lamp. Would make a great white noise night light.

@Salinaut Год назад

This is absolutely possible. Bob has already basically built it for the functionality, though I'm not sure if the same software was used. There's an ESP-based LED system called WLED that allows you to program different modes, like holiday lighting effects, etc. A flickering fire preset would be remarkably easy to add, if it's not already standard. @iliketomakestuff it might be worth looking into, if you haven't already!

@patrickwaldrich Год назад

@@tjrockefeller4324 Absolutely! I was thinking the only thing I would miss is the noise!

@randelcross 7 месяцев назад

I definitely would have replaced the glass and inserted the defuser in the glass. Super creative project and WAY over my head! Gave it a new life, happydays!

@s1ocky Год назад

Esp can hook into home assistant pretty easy. It'd be handy to have the lighting hooked into the LEDs you put in those benches, or lighting in the porch. Bonus points if you use BT beaconing to let the physical location determine which (if any) it tries to control. Could also be useful for things like "Rain Imminent" alerts, what audible or light alerts, signals for things like "Dinner" (or a broadcast endpoint? I don't know about those....)

@Iliketomakestuff Год назад

These are awesome additions!

@devilsknight Год назад

No hate, but i had to laugh about the "Rain Imminent" alert!

@bjarkeistruppedersen8213 Год назад

The coolest part of rotary encoders is that they can turn forever, unlike potentiometers

@jackpaxton9391 Год назад

The cinematography in the beginning is award winning quality.

@patrickwburnett Год назад

What a GREAT intro!! That was fantastic

@andrewmortimer3317 Год назад

This was my favorite electronics build on your channel so far! I love seeing vintage nostalgia combined with modern uses. I have an old Arvin 8584 radio that I want to convert to Bluetooth and I think your project gave me the impetus to start doing it.

@TeddyMonacelli Год назад

This was one of my favorite videos from you guys in a while. Also you asked for what else it can do- everyone always appreciates USB charges, AC charges, and headphone ports.

@762x54rr Год назад

as someone who collects vintage Coleman equipment this hurts my soul to see you destroy a nice vintage lantern but was a cool project!

@seetheworldfrommyharley Год назад

Agreed! But since the damage is done, add solar charging capability and some Bluetooth sub and satellite speaker options 😊

@jeremys3174 Год назад

I was thinking the samething out of curiosity how would you say his was worth...... seemed like his would be for parts

@bobforbes1231 Год назад

I agree, see my comment elsewhere

@bobforbes1231 Год назад

@@jeremys3174 I sold one about a year ago for$100

@jeremys3174 Год назад

@@bobforbes1231 sooo he'd have to buy a new 1 around 100

@Sonal_Mobile Год назад

Awesome project! Kentucky Bob and the Diodes of Light

@Camperfanatic01 Год назад

Yikes, I’m a lantern nerd…. I like the outcome but wish it was done on a lantern that was no longer useable. It easily could have been cleaned and used as was intended for very little money. I get why you did what you did though. Also fyi, it used white gas or Coleman gas not kerosene.

@DarinMcGrew Год назад

Yeah, that was my first thought: the original lantern was a white gas lantern, not a kerosene lantern. It was clearly set up for a mantle (white gas), not a wick (kerosene).

@automaticprojects Год назад

Terrific project. One of my favorites in almost a decade of watching. Rotary encoders are one of my favorite inputs for microcontroller projects.

@AndyCallaway Год назад

Lol. "Shining my trumpet"... Is that a euphemism? 😄

@reallunacy Год назад

I think it would be cool if you took a good quality picture of where the name was painted on and made it into a file so you could cut it out on a vinyl cutter. As time goes on it may wear off so being able to recreate it with vinyl would be a nice touch that you may appreciate in a few years.

@MartFord Год назад

That looks so cool. I'd probably add a little sub-woofer in the base pointing down, so when it's placed on a table you can get the bass passing into it.

@adamglendye Год назад

Awesome intro and amazing project! Never forgetting the past in your projects while taking those items into the future!

@compunurse Год назад

Great video. Cool nostalgic project. Reminds me of the lantern from my childhood. It used "Coleman Fuel."

@66TwinReverb Год назад

Program the LEDs to cycle and it will simulate a flame behind the translucent material. Great video and project!

@alankeith7866 Год назад

If you are using it just for ambient lighting, you should have a candle flicker in it to simulate the flame.

@masterofnone Год назад

I was watching Indiana Jones and stopped to watch the early drop of ILTMS video. And what do I see.

@forby_ Год назад

haha!

@Iliketomakestuff Год назад

Perfect timing!

@cjnesi Год назад

This is an awesome project giving new life to the original! ❤ it!

@masonl87 Год назад

"I used this to shine my trumpet when I was growing up..." Is that what they called it back then? TMI, Bob!!!

@rrddaatube Год назад

I love this project, I've got some of my grandfather's tools and I love thinking about him every time I use them. Bringing other old things back to life is a great idea.

@JerryPonds Год назад

coolest intro you've ever done, great job

@joelsmith2985 Год назад

"Brasso" on your trumpet? Speaking as a band instrument repairman.....you're my kind of customer.....kaching! Intro was awesome!!!! Great Job!!!!!

@KevinHorecka Год назад

How about a blue/white/red time of day gradient, synced to wake and bed time. Or maybe a "fire flicker" effect if you put in individually addressed LEDs.

@STWHA_ Год назад

We need a longer intro! So good! We needed a trap and the escape!

@ericness9660 Год назад

I have an old railroad lantern in my basement. All I know about its history is that it has something to do with the former railroad that our farm used to ship milk on. I think I would like to do something like this project with it, and one feature I'll add is to have it make astromech droid sounds when I press its buttons.

@BenjaminMellor Год назад

I think it would be great if you made a video on it.

@guybarros Год назад

ultrasonic bug repelent would be really cool for those days where the fire isnt going but you still want to stay outside without the bugs eating you alive.

@RaccoonHenry Год назад

I hope you photographed and vectorized that beautiful lettering!!

@robdean54 Год назад

THanks for making this! I LOVE lamping stuff. I may have to add this to my lampit rotation. great work as always!

@dubya13207 Год назад

Wright’s Brass Polish is water-based and much less noxious…if you can find it! (The silver polish is much easier to find)

@outkastagc Год назад

Great intro guys, would love to see more of it!

@rods87175 Год назад

As others have said, it's a white gas lantern. I still own one. Super fragile mantles! Awesome update to the original!!!

@therocket81 Год назад

find a glass jar that is roughly the size of the lantern, and cut the bottom off, it would add a lot to the realism of the lantern. Adding a wireless charging coil and a wireless charging pad could be cool too! Or a magnetic USB connector!

@trueadrn Год назад

a timer for lights, auto shut-off. my boys would leave it on all night.

@ogrefade Год назад

I like the video. I think with the Fusion and 3d printing talents you would have made a bracket to hold the speakers for either the top of the lantern, or the middle where the holes are rather than have them fire directly up. Perhaps there wasn't room. I do really like how you in general repurposed the lantern. I thought for sure at first you were going to hinge the bottom of the kerosine tank leaving it metal, and then make some sort of cool magnetic latch. Overall two thumbs up, I would have liked more info on the Arduino aspect but I understand thats another line of your business. Thanks so much!

@patrickbuckley9694 Год назад

Do the speakers rattle the unit at all? Just curious… Maybe add a feature to the controller for a “flame effect” for the LEDs to make it more lanterny.

@JkCanvas Год назад

One of the best intro's I have seen in a really long time. Well done.

@Aragorn450 Год назад

One thing to note for people making something like this themselves is that not all USB power bricks will allow charging and power stuff too. So you'll want to make sure it can do that before trying this. Or just know that you can't keep it plugged in all the time.

@shad0wrealms116 Год назад

A single tear falls for the antique lantern but the project was great. Awesome vid.

@VonWalther2 Год назад

Great Project, love it and the execution. Though you had me yelling at my monitor the whole time, use your lathe! Keep up the great work.

@Iliketomakestuff Год назад

HAHA!

@DimONMINIpeople Год назад

Check for weather/storm warnings, say every hour, and if there is a storm coming, blink red, and if it gets very close, play a siren.

@kennethgreer Год назад

Very little mention of the speakers at the end. Cool project overall!

@davidistre7253 Год назад

The cinematography on that opening scene!

@paulevans9019 Год назад

It would be cool if you added a sound file of a real kerosene lantern burning. They have a very distinct sound.

@bobby-c7731 Год назад

“Polishing my trumpet”. Uh huh. Was that done … this one time, at band camp?

@itaquito6308 Год назад

By pressing a button it starts telling scary camping stories. Maybe even make the lights react in real time with the story!

@derstrom8 Год назад

I would definitely give it a natural flame flicker

@jacobmiddlebrook5265 Год назад

They make glass for those still. Frosted, clear. Even a 50/50 between the two.

@Iliketomakestuff Год назад

ohh, really!? I'll look that up, thanks!

@rkhi110 Год назад

I can’t spend more than five minutes in my yard during mosquito season without bug repellent. Adding one of those battery powered mosquito repellent from Lowe’s would be awesome.

@MurrayBarton Год назад

Nice project. I have a couple of old lanterns of my dads and my grandads which I had been wondering how to approach. You have given me some great ideas, thank-you.

@donaldpowell7762 Год назад

That is amazing! How about a dusk/dawn sensor?

@kirillion848 Год назад

Making it into a lava lamp wouldve been cool as well

@Ekumees Год назад

i would add the possibility to make the leds flicker like a real flame

@frogjmon Год назад

You could add a sound sensor to the esp and have the lights react to the music. And as I believe others have said you could integrate to home assistant via Mqtt or reprogram with esphome (which is what I use for most projects) then you could automate it to act as accent lighting when plugged in. A simple automation could be to have it respond to a light smart light switch or to copy another smart light behavior. Another fun idea which would require some testing/fiddling would be to see if you can use a lux sensor to determine if the lamp is near a camp fire, it would be directional but I expect if faced the right direction you might be able to distinguish between sunlight, indoor light, and campfire light. If you can, you could have it automatically turn on to a party mode etc when it senses campfire.

@mgom Год назад

Could you add something to so when you pick it up it goes full brightness / white (for walking around) then go back to previous setting when put back down.

@GraysonZimmer Год назад

Oh man! Super neat project and so much potential! Since you're hiding the insides with that diffusion, you can cut out the middle lantern mechanisms, install a RGB multi LED 360 non-diffused bulb in there for much brighter output. It seems kind of dim with those lights but it still works great as a mood light! You can also install a much bigger battery if you either take a battery pack apart and install the parts or go with a custom battery solution with 18650s for the higher drain light. I'm also SO curious what it would sound like if you cut holes to mount the speakers where they're just sitting now and use the tank as a speaker box. I know full well acoustics and box volume and all that is a big complicated thing for speakers but I would imagine it would probably sound better than open air speakers like that. Another stupid fun thought is to make a "fire like effect" on the LEDs but make it change hue (between yellow and orange) with the music! A modern touch on the classic "flickering flame" LEDs out there!

@Mrlbowes Год назад

Not sure how possible it is but you could add a way to record campfire stories or scary stories for fall time, on your phone and send it to the lantern. With a flickering lighting setting I think that would make an amazing camp night for kids.

@matthysloedolff Год назад

This project is amazing! I enjoyed watching this video from start to finish. I was excited when I heard you talk about it on Making It. It's such a great idea to convert something old into something modern, giving it second life. Also, the intro was done really really well.

@th3sinner Год назад

fire effect leds would be gorgeous on this build

@danwestern5174 Год назад

i'ce got an old one of those lanterns too. i might have to modify mine as well

@RichardMarks-1701 Год назад

Omg Bob!!! I felt the pain when the blade fell in!!!! Very cool project. It gives me a few ideas.

@barrysoper2257 Год назад

Very cool. My dad used a lamp like this when we camped as a kid. The fuel was naphtha. Had to pump it up. The stove had the same principle. The lamp was used inside the tent. Somehow we survived. 😅

@Chris_Sitko Год назад

Great video, Bob! It would be cool if the lantern could have communication functionality like a walkie talkie, so if something is needed you can ask someone inside to bring it out!

@jackson_a95 Год назад

Love the opening haha

@ChristopherCobra Год назад

You can program the arduino to do flame flickering by using both the digial and analof outputs for some of the leds and getting clever with random pulseing on the digital output. I actually have the code around here someplace.

@michaelhopper9945 Год назад

Loved seeing Anthony(?) on the camera, in the reflection of the tank, and the battery pack.😆😆 (about 8 minutes, I think?)

@bloodysilver5057 Год назад

Sound generator for driving the masketos away, make the lights flash with the music, and a flashing light and siren mode for when you are lost and need to be found.

@RandomGreymane 5 месяцев назад

I would add motion activation. Even better possibly add NFC profile recognition or NFC control. Wave a hand and it lights up with your profile.

@mattbrennan5738 Год назад

Great use of an old lantern. I don't know how you would do it but do you think there would be a way to add a mozzie repellent function? Maybe a sensor that detects a mozzie landing on it and releases an aerosol or even better, zaps it.

@bobforbes1231 Год назад

As an old Canadian guy who used these types of lanterns for many years camping, I'm disappointed you destroyed a classic antique. These lanterns would run for hours and hours on a full tank of Naptha ( not kerosene) sometimes called white gas. You can still find parts for these lanterns, including generators, mantles and globes. They did not flicker if set up properly so flickering LEDs would not be authentic either.

@AtrumNoxProductions Год назад

A few folks have already said to have it flicker. I think having the lights interact with the sound would be cool. You could have it play scary sounds on occasion for stories by the firepit hahaha.

@Bostonaholic Год назад

That flip up bench vise is amazing!

@jpalarchio Год назад

Wow, this exceeded your description on the podcast. Incredible production; such a cool project and great reuse.

@0pm Год назад

I would add a fire animation preset on the LEDs with fireplace sound effects on the speaker.

@mattrinne Год назад

My daughter says her suggestion is to make the LEDs flicker like fire. 🔥 🤓 💻

@AB_in_CO Год назад

Love the intro!

@thefakemaker Год назад

The term “shine my trumpet” has now taken on a new meaning.

@AnthonyCotto Год назад

If you're running wled on the Esp32, that easily integrates with home assistant if you want to have it automatically turn on and off with the time of day, or whatever else you can imagine. Neat project!

@blizatrex Год назад

Adding a party mode would be a fun addition.

@iDennis95 Год назад

Maybe a way to make it blink SOS Morse code in case of emergency, maybe also a plug where you can put in a solar panel to charge it during the day.

@Codeaholic1 Год назад

Wow! That intro is outstanding camera work. *clap*

@mygaragebay Год назад

I think adding a function that alerts you of rain or other weather nearby would be interesting to have near the fire pit. Like flashing blue to alert you that rain is coming soon and give you time to clean up and put the fire out. Have another color to alert you that someone is at your front door when the pizza arrives. Ha ha. Know your phone does this but nice to not have to look at it. Great build and love giving objects a second life.

@ShaggyTDawg Год назад

Hey Bob! I was curious, most consumer battery packs will only either charge or discharge at one time. Typically never both at the same time. Did you find a pack that could do both, or some sort of passthrough charging? P.S. long time viewer, and we met in person one time in Huntsville. We talked Land Cruisers and I believe some topics for the panel you were on later in the evening.

@matthewl.5059 Год назад

I love it, I have a few old lanterns too and I may just mod one myself. Thanks for the great idea. One thing that I would so differently, is using just white LED's that are supper bright. the reason that this lantern was popular was how bright they were. and by making he brightness controllable would be awesome

@ddutton0 Год назад

Ranch beans 🫘, pinto beans 🫘, refried beans 🫘 Great reuse of an old lantern!

@apsodric Год назад

I freakin love these cinematic intros! ❤📽

@Iliketomakestuff Год назад

This was fun for us!

@kpmathis71 Год назад

Many usb power banks can't provide power while also being charged. Trade offs in controller design I guess. So be careful with selection of power banks for projects like this. Feature add suggestion: Run time limiter. Use arduino to turn off power (relay? Or signalling) to BT system after X amount of time to keep from over draining battery. Even better if you could read power remaining stats out of the battery, but I don't know any that give you that over the usb connection (I wonder why).

@lopesfacascustom Год назад

Nice project, you could have put the USB port on the kerosene filler cap and the encoder to adjust the brightness of the leds on the fuel valve, that way it wouldn't change the look at all, and make sense, as you kept their function as "fuel port" and "brightness control knob"

@HakuginSan Год назад

I realize that others have suggested similar, but don't really include the "how" part. Something I would try is making the LED spiral tighter with the LEDs spaced to form a matrix. Then you could create preprogrammed patterns like Flame flicker or other effects. Combined with the built in speakers it could emulate the look and sound of the original oil flame. If MQTT is implemented the lantern could receive MQTT messages for control from Home Assistant, in a similar way to how Tasmota and ESPHome use MQTT to control "smart" lights. Using another commenters suggestion, using a weather add-on for Home Assistant to detect when the chance of precipitation exceeds a threshold it would send an MQTT message to the lantern to trigger a specific pattern to let you know there is a good chance it will rain. Of course this can also be applied to other lights and devices that can accept MQTT so that its not just a one off project. Love what you did with the lantern and it will definitely look good on the remodeled porch.

@barrydevlinred Год назад

Take the internals out of a glow egg with a digital readout and it will act as a thermometer 😅

@brandonpeters1987 Год назад

The beginning of the video was awesome! Great Job

@ChristianBehnke Год назад

I love the pump > encoder solution! 👍🏻

@idiotluggage Год назад

I really like to see old things given a new life. I am working (I use that word very loosely) on converting an old standing radio into a Bluetooth radio. I have been kind of stuck on the knobs, but I will have to look for the ones you mentioned. Is it possible to get a copy of the files you used for the knob? It would save me a ton of time trying to recreate it. Thank you.

@steveferguson1232 Год назад

What a great way to honor your grandfather giving that old lantern a new and modern life. Really cool

@GeneralFlagg Год назад

Another awesome video Bob! If I were to try and add more functionality to the lantern, I'd try and put another switch behind the knob on the upper portion of the lamp to allow me to skip/scan thru the tracks that the speakers are playing.