Build Your Own Pin-Hole Planetarium

Have you ever wanted to stare at the star-lit night from the comfort of your bed? Reproduce nature's majesty with your own homemade planetarium and transform your ceiling into the night sky using a few electronic components and some common household materials. Follow these easy steps and you'll be seeing stars in no time.

Step 1: Step 1 - Required materials

At the start of a project, it's important to put together a list of materials you will need. This project requires a few electronic components and a few things you may already have lying around.

1. Metal bowl - this will be your planetarium dome
2. Base, I used a microwave splatter guard*note that the bowl and the base should be a good fit together (see photo below)
3. Hammer
4. A few nails
5. A metal file
6. Wooden block
7. Soldering equipment
8. High Power LED
9. Toggle Switch
10. Wall Adapter Power Supply
11. Hook-up Wire

Comments

[kelseymh]

This is an excellent project idea. Could you please take at least one photo of it in action (dark room, turned on, use a tripod and "nighttime" setting on your camera), and add it to the end. That would make this entirely Featurable!