Project Updates:
We have laid out the old hell lights, and determined that although it's a close thing, we still have enough lights to make it all the way around the hall without using our replacements strip.
After a bit of discussion with the denizens of hell, we've decided to roll a bit of paint patchup into the project. We were originally planning to go over some of the places where the black has pealed with sharply, but that proved less than successful. Instead, our plan is to pick up some small brushes during Blackerathon and touch up the paint with new black paint before putting up the lights.
Pulled down all of the old tape and Velcro and put up new double-stick tape along most of the hallway. We may need to re-position it a bit depending where we end up putting the strips relative to the walls, but it should be mostly in the correct spots.
After most of the take-takedown had been completed, we held a soldering class with about 10 frosh and 2 s'mores (plus a few more frosh who already knew how to solder and wanted to help out teaching). It was not enormously comprehensive, but everyone learned how to use heat shrink and a lineman splice to make an inline connection, as well as how to splice together two LED strips (relevant to this project) with just solder and tape.