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Everyone loves black lights! Most people have experimented with a black light at sometime in their life because it's fun to watch things glow in the d...
The materials should cost around $5. I provided a list below. If you don't have a printer or solder pen, don't go out and buy them. Just borrow them f...
Grab your black poster board, ruler, and pencil. Now draw a square that is 5 inches wide and 5 inches long or 5in.X 5in. So easy!
Grab your scissors and cut out the 5inch X 5inch square you just drew. Hold on to this square we are going to use it alot!
Now grab the square we just cut out and place it in the middle of the black poster board. Using your pencil, trace the square on the black poster boar...
Now lets grab our square cut out and trace 4 more squares with the pencil. Just use each side of the square we traced in step four to orient the squar...
If you did it correctly, then you should have formed what looks like a big fat cross. Each box that we traced should be adjacent to the original box f...
This next step is probably the easiest. All we have to do is draw an outline around our cross about 1/2 inch from the original cross.You can do this f...
Now let's grab our scissors and cut out the cross. Use the 1/2 inch outline we drew in step 7 as a guide. DO NOT cut over the lines we drew in step 7....
If you did step 8 correctly you should now have a black cross. Within the black cross we just cut out we should see another cross formed from the squa...
Next get the scissors again and cut a line from inside the 90 degree angle of the cross to the corner of the square outlined in pencil. Do this for ea...
Grab your ruler and use it to make 4 perfect folds all around. At this point you only need to fold the lines of the square we outlined in pencil in th...
Now cut off all 8 corners from the cross. But only cut up to the pencil line. DO NOT cut off beyond our pencil outline corner.
Now fold the other lines. There should be 12 folds when you are done.
Now is the time to check our work. So just bring in all the folds and hold it together to see how the box looks. If anything is off or the folds don't...
Now make a hole in the middle of one of the lines on your cross. This will be at the bottom of our box when it is formed. This is where our USB cable ...
Now grab our USB cable that we bought at 99ยข Only Store.
Cut off the end of the cable that does not go into the USB.
Now let's get out our ruler again and measure seven inches from the cut off end of the USB cable. This is the part we are going to strip off later.
Now using our scissors lets strip off the plastic from the USB cable at the 7inch mark. This is probably the hardest part of the project because you n...
Now lets grab our scissors and carefully cut off the shielding from the USB cable to expose the wires. The shielding kinda looks like foil paper but i...
Now there are 4 wires exposed- red,green,white, and black. We only want to keep the red and black wires which is our power source.So get the scissors ...
Next we are ready to do some gluing. Grab the Hot Glue Gun and glue the two side flaps of what will be the bottom of our box. You can tell which side ...
Now we are ready to glue the two flaps that will rest on top of the flaps we glued in step 22. The glue dries super fast so just do one flap at a time...
Now we are going to glue the two side flaps of what will be the top of our box. Just turn the box over and glue the flaps down but leave the 3rd flap ...
Ok time to stick our USB red and black cables through the hole we made in step 15. Just let about a quarter inch of the plastic shielding from the USB...
Ok let's straighten the wires a little bit so they look nice and neat and then use the Hot Glue Gun to glue the whole thing down. Use as much glue as ...
Ok remember the square we cut out in step 3? The one I told you to keep? Well we are going to hot glue this down on the bottom of our box to cover the...
Ok now lets strip off about 1/2 inch from our red and black wires to expose the copper underneath.
I don't know about you but I was getting bored of squares. So now lets grab one of our black poster board pieces with ruler and pencil in hand. We are...
Ok we are going to fold the rectangle lengthwise twice to create 3 spaces. The middle space will measure 1/2 inch and the remaining two spaces will me...
Ok now let's grab the LED's we got from RadioShack and take them out of the package. If you observe from the picture, the LED(light emitting diode) ha...
Ok now let's grab our rectangle housing and one of our LED's. Slowly poke the two LED legs through the middle of one of the 3/4 inch sides on the rect...
Well not really, lol. We need to add resistors to the andode(+) left side of our LED's otherwise they will burn out right away! So grab your packet of...
First solder one resistor to the anode(+) or left side(longer leg) of the LED and then solder the second resistor to the anode(+) or left side(longer ...
Next we are going to solder the red wire(+) from our USB cable to the legs of the resistors we soldered on the left side. After that, we are going to ...
Now we are going to glue our housing to the the bottom of the box. Trust me the hot glue will hold the housing down easily but just make sure to apply...
Ok now we need a background pic to go on the back wall of the box. The pic will be 5 inches X 5 inches naturally. I chose a symbol of my family crest ...
Cut out the background picture using your scissors.Get the flourescent marker and color the white parts of your background picture.Now grab your glue ...
Now glue the top of the box to the remaining flaps using your Hot Glue Gun.
Grab your scissors and cut out the curtains. Fold the top part of the curtains to create a flap. Apply clear tape to this flap or you can use glue, wh...
Now plug in the USB to see how it looks. Not too bad.
Now grab your extra black poster board pieces. And with your ruler measure out a rectangle 6 inches length and 5 inches wide and cut it out.
Now grab your ruler and pencil and draw a square right in the middle of the rectangle. The square will measure 3 1/4 inches in length and 3 1/5 inches...
I typed the meaning of my name using regular 'courier new' font. Notice I made the letters white and the background black. Also I found some really co...
Finally grab your Hot Glue Gun and glue the rectangle to the front of the box using the four remaining flaps.
You did it! Congratulations! Yay.
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