Creative Switch Project Instructable
Flower and Vase Creation
By Ishta Bhagat
Materials:
- 1
battery (9 V) - Battery
cap - Fake Flowers
- 2 or more LEDs
- Wires
- Single
wire (Perhaps Green and some other color) - Wires
that contains many wires - Resistor
with correct ohm value in parallel circuit - Circular
Cardboard cutout - A
vase - Scotch
Tape and Copper Tape - Foil
- Balloon
Sticks and Cups - Green
Paint
Tools:
- Wire Cutter
- Wire Clippers
- Paint Brush
- Soldering Iron and Stand
- Scissors
Instructions:
- Attach
the battery and the battery cap together. They should fit like a snap. The
black wire is cathode or ground, thus making red anode side (positive side). - Grab
some foil and fold it to make it relatively thick. Put it in the inside bottom
of the vase and use your fingers to shape the foil to the base of the vase
creating a cup. - Use
tape to stick the anode side to the foil. - Separately,
get a cutout of cardboard the same area as the ¾ of the vase
from bottom up. In other words, cut it out so it is not at the top of
the vase and visible. - Rap
the cutout cardboard with foil and cut out holes for two flowers (or more if
you making more). - Separately,
paint the balloon sticks green similar to the stem of the fake flowers. Cut off
if they are too long and proportional to flower length and vase size. - Solder
holes through the balloon cups so the cups can travel up and down the sticks,
but not too loose that they don’t stay in one place. - Attach
the balloon cups to where the sticks would be in the vase and read the
cardboard section. Make sure your
balloon stick touches the foil at the bottom of vase, through a hole in the
cardboard with foil, and the balloon cup to the top of the foil. - Cut a small part of
the light blue scrap wire. Now solder the black wire of battery cap to the
smaller light blue multi-thread wire and solder other side to the resistor. Now
continue the other end of the resistor with the scrap wire. Now at the end of
the scrap wire, span the threads out and scotch tape them to the foil cardboard
piece. - Scotch tape the wires and the battery to the edge of the vase so it does not interfere with when the “stem” goes down.
- Now put the cardboard piece on top of vase and make sure it is stable and does not move much.
- Now use the green single thread wire to hook onto the balloon cap and twist to an LED light and solder them (LED and green wire) together. Make sure the green wire goes to the shorter side of the LED.
- Then grab a long piece of the other color wire and solder the other end of the LED to one end and send the fake flower stem and the wire down the balloon stick and making sure that the wire is exposed when it reaches the bottom of the stick.
- Stick copper tape along the balloon cups so when they make contact with the foil, it will close the circuit and light up the flowers.
- Do this for the other flowers.
- Now you have your flower in and out of the vase circuit.