Cute Magnetic Owl Lamp

This is an owl lamp I worked on with my girlfriend Sylvia. We are both students of design & technology in NYC and built this together as a fun soft-circuits project. Our goal was to make a small night-lamp that was both cute and functional.

The project is very simple - anyone can follow this Instructable to build their own owl lamp. We encourage you to imagine other characters or animals that you can create with this design.

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Step 1: What you need

Soldering station
Solder
Thin coated wire
9V battery with enclosure
Glue gun
Ultra bright LEDs (we are using 1W star LEDs)
Resistors (~100-300ohm)
Knife
Copper tape
Adhesive velcro pads
Mini high strength magnets (the ones we used were 5x5x1 mm)
Material for laser cutting

You should be able to get everything you need from the following stores: Radio Shack, sparkfun.com, allelectronics.com, adafruit.com, amazon.com.

Maskim says: Jan 27, 2013. 5:15 AM

Hey, thank you from France to your great instructables.
I use your tuto in the order to make my own, I just copy your amazing owl and I make a cat (This caracter is Happy from the Fairy Tail japanese anime).

http://www.instructables.com/files/deriv/FXD/JI3A/HCB8KPEW/FXDJI3AHCB8KPEW.THUMB.jpg

http://www.instructables.com/files/deriv/FKG/Y38P/HCB8KPEX/FKGY38PHCB8KPEX.THUMB.jpg

Fuzzy-Wobble (author) in reply to MaskimJan 27, 2013. 6:22 AM

BRAVO! Looks great.

bhenderson4 says: Nov 8, 2012. 11:22 AM

All I had on hand were some craft sticks, hot glue, two ping pong balls, a sharpie, and an X-Acto knife so I did the best I could. I still need to get some LEDs that are bright enough for the eyes but that will be the easy part. I think I need to make some more of these for Christmas gifts for my nieces!