Fireflies - Analog version...

Step 4 Add a housing

Now that you have it assembled, it time to find a housing of some kind. Admittedly, this would have been something to think of earlier, but I just don't work that way, baby.

For this lamp, I took an old Weston meeter I had laying around. I removed all the old internal mechanism.

I then fitted the board to some of the old mounting points, and arranged the LEDs on their stalks to about where I wanted them.

For the front cover, I just removed the existing glass, then used some decoupage to past on a firefly pattern I had printed out on the computer using tissue paper. I can go into that technique later if anyone asks. I remounted the glass.

The power source shown is scavenged from an old DVD player. One of those cheap ones that you get from Walmart for $29.95. The laser had died. When I checked, it was putting out a nicely regulated 5v. perfect for this.

That's about it. I'm open to questions and suggestions. Good luck.

Comments

[raphihell]

that 1500uf cap is sort of pricey if you are going to start geting into dozens of them... any suggestions on how to tweak this to get away with a smaller one? what about some r/c combo with a transistor? R

[UltraMagnus]

1F caps are quite cheap....

[jamwaffles]

start collecting old junk and stuff - soon youll have a pile of old pcbs and you will be able to get all sorts of stuff off them