Assignment 2 – Making a lighted flower using LEDs

Choosing an idea was not as difficult as I thought considering the shape of a flower Is decently easy :). I thought it would have been fun to add fun colors too the petals. Materials copper wire a battery, 3V DC purple coin cell Tube Copper Tape LEDs Tape Zip tie Sauter machine Multimeter Materials First,…

Creative Switch: Light-up Butterfly

I wanted to create an interactive piece where it is shaped like a butterfly, and when you make its wings flap, the LEDs turn on. The switch aspect in this project is the loop made out of conductive fabric tape touching the copper tape to close the circuit and turn the LEDs on. Supplies: 4 red,…

Creative Switch –

CREATIVE SWITCH – FAIRY WAND – Mackenzie Carlson For my creative switch project, I decided to build a fairy wand. To build one yourself, you’ll need: 5 LEDs Copper tape/conductive tape Soldering Kit 4 coin cell batteries The first step to building a fairy wand switch is laying out your circuitry. I decided to use…

Creative Switch

My creative switch is a Christmas tree. Its two parallel circuits connected at the bottom of the project. It is powered by a 9v battery connected together by wires. First I cut out my tree out. After that I laid down the fabric tape as my conductor, and that’s shown in the picture. Once the…

create switch : greeting card

in this project, I want to create a connection in a greeting card. it will have a paper flipping switch. so when the greeting card is open, the LED will be connected with the battery and turn on. Materials  Two LED light  Two button batteries Copper tape Card board paper solder and solder wire   …

Creative Switch – Inventory Storage

My initial idea for this project was to create something that would be helpful in some way for me. I began by thinking about making some sort of mechanism that would somehow remind about items or things that I usually forget to take like my wallet or keys. Through some brainstorming I ended up with…

Creative Switch: Light Up Jewels

For my creative switch I wanted to make a necklace that lit up. Specifically I really wanted the clasp to serve as the switch. So the motion of closing the necklace would light up the LEDs. The LEDs also take place of gems/charms that are usually on a necklace. Materials: Necklace 3 LEDs Wire (green…

Creative Switch

Pop out blooming rose Materials needed:  2 black sheets of paper sheets of print paper 3 red LEDs conductive fabric tape 3 paper clips or tape colored pencils (optional) glue 3 button batteries Step 1:  Decorating – using a sheet of printer paper draw out petals of a rose, cut and color them, then curve…

Creative Switch: Interactive Bottle

For my creative switch I wanted to use something you typically wouldn’t want near electricity, water. Using water as a switch might seem strange at first, because you might think mixing water and electricity is a bad idea, but water can work just like any other conductor. I decided to make a bottle light up…

Creative Switch: Catching Fireflies

When I think about the concept of a switch, turning a light on and off, I think about my terrible grammar growing up. “Open the lights,” My mom would tell me. “Close the lights,” I’d imitate her. So I thought about an action that would mean “To open and close.” I also thought about light…

Animated Trash

The idea of this project was to bring inanimate objects to life an give them a meaning that most people don’t associate them with, such as trash being involved in an ecosystem. this instructable will show you how to attach one piece of recyclable. Materials: Double male-ended wires (3 per neopixel strip) Neopixel strips Adafruit…

Creative Switch: Iron Man Hand Light by Daniel Barrera

Inspired by Iron Man, I wanted to make an Iron Man hand blaster. Not a blaster in a sense that it can destroy things but rather to blast light so basically a hand light. In the movies, Iron Man usually opens his hand to power up his hand blaster and then closes it to turn…