<html><head></head><body>Wow this is pretty neat advice!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 8, 2017 2:54:01 AM PDT, Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 06:09:57AM +0000, Zach R wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I have a project using optic sensors outdoors but the sunlight is <br />screwing them up (curse you, sunshine!!!) anyone know of a tape-like <br />thing I can put over them to block the UV light?<br /></blockquote><br />Aluminum backed tape should do the trick. You can get it at the hardware <br />store, it's used to repair sheet metal ducts. (Which you shouldn't use <br />duct tape for, ironically.)<br /><br />You can also cut kitchen aluminum foil to shape and then use a spray <br />adhesive if you need it to be sticky, such as Super 77 (get it at your <br />art supply store).<br /><br />This is a bit of overkill, there are plenty of fabric backed tapes that <br />are fairly UV blocking, but metal foil is cheap and easy and certain to <br />work.<br /><br />-andy<br /><hr /><br />Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br />Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<br /><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>