Ghetto Spoke POV Lights

I was at the firework festival in Montreal with a couple of friends last year, and there was these people selling glow sticks, LEDs gizmos and other flashy stuff.
I bought two LED light sticks for about 5 bucks each. I wanted to strap them to the frame of my bicycle but couldn't find any tie wraps outdoor, even the cops didn't have any.
Back at home I took them apart, after seeing Ladyada's spokePOV I thought I could strap them to my bike's wheel instead, a lot more blinky.

Step 1 Stuff you'll need

Here's the various things you'll need :

• _{1 or 2 Light Stick thingy}
• _{A Hot Glue Gun (with glue sticks)}
• _{Some Cable Ties}
• _{A Philips Screw Driver}
• _{A Dremel Rotary Tool, or anything else you use to cut plastic}
• _{A Roll of Electric Tape}
• _{A Bicycle, obviously}

Comments

[bceballos]

Don't forget a towel
-towelie

[socialtalker]

nice, but why in the world is this called "ghetto"?

[santy22]

"Ghetto" is slang for "cheap" here. The original SpokePOV projects include a lot more parts to make the pretty coordinated designs, this one makes cutted circles.

[socialtalker]

in that case, a better word would be "surburban"

[zack247]

i have a mountain bike with full suspension and a disc brake. i am going to try putting the battery on the frame somehow, because i dont really like the idea of putting that kind of weight on my tires, they may go off balance. wish me luck! i'll post pics if it works out

[kgyll]

 glue tasted sweet...

[garrys newman]

yeah montreal is the best (H)

[minhocaloka]

man, you gave me a briliant idea!!!=D

=]
I have a bmx, but I only roll on streets (that why I use slic tires!=P), Annnnd, a use the bike to go tho my college, at night!=]

that will be awesome to use!=P

I think I will chage the leds to a rgb ones!=P I think that will be more "lightfull"

=]

--ps. sorry for the bad english!--

[sowhatu]

very nice, my local dollar store had these a while back, i bought 2 just for the heck of it. i might see if they have more.... BUT... if i strap battery pack to hub, and encase the pack with tape, it might be a bit difficult to replace batteries.

[alex-sharetskiy]

Awesome! not something i would have thought of!

[lordofthedonuts]

thanks!

[frollard]

Thats a brilliant repurpose! Especially putting the batteries on the hub where there will be the least g-forces to rip them apart! If you wanted to go nuts with it, some clear shrink tube over the entire circuit or circuit+spoke would be awesome, but you'd have to disassemble the wheel. I love it!

[lordofthedonuts]

Thanks a lot! yes, of course transparent shrink tubing would be awesome, good idea! I'll try to get my hands on some and maybe I'll post some pictures.

[frollard]

Even some thats translucent white would be perfect, diffusing the light from the diodes from 'radial' to 'axial'

[lordofthedonuts]

I haven't thought about it, again, nice idea! When I turned it on, the light from the LEDs were always flashing in my eyes, which was a bit annoying, I'll try it.