6 Cent LED Throwie

Make an LED Throwie for 6 (six) cents - it's the cheapest Throwie ever!

LED Throwies are popular contraptions made of a battery, an LED, and a magnet all taped together. This version does not include a magnet, although it could.

This project uses the same principle as Tool Using Animal's Penny Battery and Brenn 10's Penny and Nickel Battery. It uses pennies as electrodes and vinegar water as an acid you make a battery that will power the LED.

The video that this is based on can be found here.

If you like penny batteries, you're going to love the 500 lb. potato battery.

Step 1 Get your supplies!

For this you will need:

• 6 pennies
• Section of matte board or porous cloth
• Vinegar
• Salt
• LED
• Tape
• Sand paper

Comments

[The_Tom]

What was the voltage?

[baybreeze2]

what if you just get a a lot of batterys and make a unicorn so you become a penquin bounty hunter of the coast of mc donalds. mmmm.. but if you do the math in youre head youll come up with 5 trolls and the divide that by burger king and youll get one half a wizard of oz and 1 fourth 4th of a dorathy, lion, tinman and a scarecrow.

[jeffconnelly]

I'm somewhat confused as to the meaning of this message, but I'm fairly certain there were some questionable substances used in its production.

[cekpi7]

so can i make bigger battery and not use coins??

[bears0]

AWESOME!!! i was going through some pennies and i found a 1943 steel penny.

[bears0]

Rule 1: Follow all rules.
Rule 2: Never have more than one rule.

[Wesley666]

I sanded myself....

[bassclarinet23]

Smooth. :)

[bassclarinet23]

Get the pun?

[tschultz2]

lol

[ampeyro]

i'm spanish and we do,'t have penies, u think that could work wiyh euro cents?

[wareneutron]

you know that is spanish
you have evidence

[ampeyro]

normal, i learned english with porn

[I Love Guns]

Euros won't work because you need both zinc and copper plates touching to work, such as inside a penny. Euros are made from copper and steel. Oh, if you dropped the e in penies it would... be rather amusing...

[Dr. Steel]

Pnis?

[CamillaLuvzMusic]

wow that backfired on him ;)

[wareneutron]

i cant see everything

[wareneutron]

it have battery

[jotemon]

Is it rechargeable?

[jlking3]

Be sure that your pennies are dated after 1982, because they were almost pure copper before that date, if I recall correctly.

[techturtle2]

some pennies are compleatly steel because of WWII

[jlking3]

The only year that steel pennies were minted was 1943, but you are correct. :)

[shaneomacmcgee]

'82 or '86, I'm not sure, but that's correct If you drop your pennies on concrete, copper ones "ding" in a higher pitch than the newer ones.

[TyMan210]

What if i want to sand myself?

[iglo1234]

1.grab sandpaper 2.rub all over face 3.??????? 4.PROFIT!

[bassclarinet23]

5.) Go to hospital.
6.) Get skin graph.
7.) Tell everyone you were in a fire and saved 100 starving orphans, though you had severe burns on your face. (Sounds better than, "I was bored, so I grabbed the sander...") :)

[8bit]

Step 7 is a face saving solution! 

[venom52]

step 8 it doesn't work

[bassclarinet23]

Ha ha, punny!

[fire bat]

omg yes, you go on 4chan dont you?

lol, epic
profit ^_

[iglo1234]

Rule 1 and 2.

[daemonkrog]

Doesn't stating "Rule 1 and 2" break those rules?

[iglo1234]

Not if you don't know what it means.

[daemonkrog]

Well I don't know what it memes.

[iglo1234]

Clever.

[BOOM5601]

/b/

[TyMan210]

Exactly!

[memyselfand1]

Is your name... Sandy?

[TyMan210]

No...

[jeremiahbarrar]

bad idea