Darts Board Illumination Ring Light

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Playing darts gains more and more popularity, especially around the time of world championship games in December/January. Playing and practicing for a few years now, I wondered how to optimize the conditions. The illumination was one of the most obvious points. Buying professional equipment was never an option (tinker on a budget), I started designed something myself. What you see here is the first version, maybe I'll redo some parts in the future. My illumination ring is press-fitted between board and surround and should therefore fit most boards (for reference, my board is 45,6cm outer diameter). Despite time and plastic on your printer, you'll only have to supply a self- adhesive LED-strap of at least 2.2m length (this drained my budget by 13€, making it a lot more affordable then commercial solutions). If you want to build one yourself, this it what you'll have to print: 11x Ring Element 3x Holder 8x Connector (maybe scale up by 2%-3%) 1x Ring Element Cable 1x Holder Cable All items are printable on a 20cm by 20cm bed (ANET A8 in my case), you can even fit multiple ring elements in one print. The settings I used where pretty rough (0.4mm layer height, 20% infill), if you want more quality, reduce layer height. If you fancy hidden cables, print one dbi_holder_cable for a regular holder (support needed). For assembly, there is no glue required (as long as your print has average precision). My overall print time was around 20h, consuming 380g of filament (I printed everything in PLA, mostly from dasfilament). If you build one yourself, please upload a make, and if you feel like, consider tipping a small cup of coffee from the money you saved. As I worked on this project, I found that https://www.thingiverse.com/ThomasW69 already uploaded a similar design (see thing:3341997). I did never copy form your design and appreciate what you uploaded. Still I want to offer my design as an alternative :)