DiskoPigs

When I saw those "Mini Pig" flashlights at Dealextreme I fell in love and ordered plenty of them. Those cute flashlights are only $0,79 and always a funny present for friends and family. But they also save money to the electronic enthusiast: One flashlight include 2 superbright LEDs and three button cells. For $0,79 this is a very good deal. But instead of taking them apart and throwing the plastic to the landfill I decided to make a cute DiskoPigs light installation for my next party.

If you also like those cute "Mini Pig" flashlights, have a look at my other instructable Dancing Vibro Pig!

The heart of DiskoPigs is a hacked MiniPOV. I didnt want to take my original MiniPOV so I built it on a perfboard, but you can just use your MiniPOV-Kit from Ladyada to make it. Basically I substituted the LEDs with the Mini Pig Flashlights, changed the code a little bit and mounted everything on an old record disc for the disco feeling.

Unfortunally I forgot to take photos, but I'll try to recover the way I built the DiskoPigs.

Step 1 Parts and Tools

Parts:

• 8 Mini Pig Flashlights (Dealextreme)
• MiniPOV Kit (Adafruit)
• if you have the MiniPOV Kit with 100 ohm (brown black brown) resistors you should substitute R1 to R8 with 47 ohm (yellow purple black) resistors to get a brighter light
• Wire
• old record disc or similar

Tools:

• Soldering iron and solder
• small drill
• Diagonal cutters
• Hot glue gun
• optional: Handy Hands / Third hand tool
• Computer with serial port or USB/Serial converter

Comments

[splazem]

Nice. I saw and bought those pigs at a store a while back. Now I have something to do with them!

[mischka]

Now I have another Instructable involving those pigs: Dancing Vibro Pig. Have Fun!

[splazem]

Alright!

[mischka]

Cool, if you're done, show what you made with them.

[zvizvi]

What a sweet project! Also, I love the thinking behind it: the simplicity, maximizing the effect , utilizing cool artifacts to build even cooler artifacts! way to go

[mischka]

Thanks!

[Robot Lover]

This is freakin' awesome! You should put some of those rainbow fading LED's instead of the regular.

[kristylynn84]

oh wow! LOL :D that's so cooool. :D

[zazenergy]

Love this!! Disko Pigs just made my morning!

[mischka]

Good morning! Its 9pm in Germany ;-)