Upside Down Ornament Base

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Base for holding glass ornaments. Glass ornaments showcased from Lowe's. I discover that the ornament stems aren't perfectly round, so I create a hot spot in the center with a glue gun or soldering iron, make a depression with a pencil and let it cool slightly, then insert the ball. I'm using these to hold clear glass ornaments in a cabinet. Then I fill the thin "stem" of the ornament with hot glue and insert an LED, which can be wired through the channel back to a control board. These look kind of magical on their own, and they diffuse a single LED really well over a large area for even coloring when mounting behind paper. I'll set up a series of these in a shadowbox (found at Michael's) and use them as notification indicators for a few of my favorite services with open APIs. CAD design via Onshape.