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Building the tombstone

As with the spider, the tombstone is cut from foam board. Its shape comes from simply rounding off the top edge of the sheet.

Using a 12mm spacing template, we marked the position of every hole for the WS2811 pixels, then made each hole the right size. The letters R, I and P were marked and filled the same way.

The front of the tombstone with pixels around the edge and spelling RIP
The front of the tombstone with pixels around the edge and spelling RIP.

The finished prop uses 146 pixels, including two blanks between the edge and the letters.

The back of the tombstone showing the pixel string looped around the edge and through the letters
The back of the tombstone showing the pixel string looped around the edge and through the letters.

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