Foot Activated Light Up Face

A Halloween face for a scarecrow that lights up when the foot switch is stepped upon.
Step Switch This link shows the basic idea for the step switch that I used. I did not solder anything for this project, as I wanted it to be a project with which small children could help.
All the components were either lying around the house, or were picked up from RadioShack.

Step 1 Materials

Tools:
Small sidecutters
Scissors

Materials:
Assorted Connectors
20 count Variety Pack of LEDs
PC Board for Mounting LEDs
Electrical Tape
Speaker Wire
Flexible Insluated Copper Wire
Needle and Thread
Fabric
Pillow Stuffing
Aluminum foil
3V coin cell battery
Paper

Comments

[grandtippler]

This is a fun project, well done.

[guyfrom7up]

thanx for quoting my instructable! I didn't solder anything either, but that was out of lazyness ;)

[Firebert010]

I think you're getting breadboards confused with PC board, which is what you used.

[schmeese]

YES! Thank you for relaying the correct information.

[gamer]

you need resistors!!!!!

[frollard]

If you're running from button-cel batteries, the internal resistance of the battery prevents it from discharging more than the LED can survive. If you're using almost any other power source, gamer is correct - you need a current-limiting supply, or a series resistor to ensure you don't cook the LED's. read: Ohm's Law. Great instructable otherwise!

[schmeese]

Perhaps I should've added a disclaimer that this only needs to work for about two hours, and not even constantly for those two hours.