Solar garden lamp based pendant

Our early teen model, showing off her solar garden lamp based night light pendant ! These look very attractive and scope exists for kids to make a batch & sell them as "fashionable solar lamps" etc. A small profit could even be made -folks seem happy to pay ~$5 here here in NZ, especially if they could select their own ribbon from a range available!

Step 1

Solar Garden Lamps (SGL) are globally available at approx US$2 each, but often are pretty clunky or missing a switch. These new types were compact, full featured & very attractive.

Comments

[manuka]

Here's a crowd of Kiwi 12-13 yo's with their  "11/11/11"  pendant creations !

[manuka]

This time it's ~9yo's at a South Auckland school. Time was a little tight here so we bypassed the hole drilling & largely went for "illuminations".

[manuka]

Further steps added & technical details moved to the project end.

[javajunkie1976]

Great idea! Dimtick is right, this is perfect for Halloween! I volunteer at a rabbit shelter and if I can find a way to incorporate this into a rabbit silouhette, this would be a perfect, green item to sell.

[dimtick]

what a cool project. perfect for Halloween.
couldn't really follow a lot of the pictures but i think i get the basic idea.
nice job!

[enatti]

Awesome idea! I'm off to the w house to buy and try. Cheers!

[scoochmaroo]

What a fun project to get kids into hacking!