LED Glowsticks

Step 2 Start to make a GLOWSTICK

At first I added the straws together and cut a little to make them enough long for my project.
I inserted two LEDs at the ends of the straws and used heatshrink to make it tight.
You can use just one straw to make a LED glowstick throwie. On my project, power wasn't a problem but if u want to make a portable project with 3 volt batteries like CR2032 u must insert the LED just one end of the straw and close the other and with a tape or something. Or u can insert a burned (dead) LED as a mirror for more light effect.

Comments

[yankeee7]

 ok what did you do after that to make them glow? or do they just magically turn on when the lights go off.

[electrophobia]

Ha ha! Too funny yankeee7...
That wasn't a nice comment.. So I am not going to answer your clever question...
How old are you yankee? 7?

[blaver]

I think he was being serious, I have no idea how you got them lit.

[ywetgc]

didnt he plug them into the computer through the USB port?

[electrophobia]

The full project is here.. if you want to learn how I lit them, please click here...

[yankeee7]

Im old enough haha.  and i just thought it was kinda funny how you totally skipped that part.  But really, what did you do just tape some button cell batteries onto the ends or put a bunch of switches and wires and stuff on it?

[electrophobia]

I used them on my laptop stand. So i just wired the leds to a USB cable and used the electricity of my laptop.. That is another instructable of mine if you are interested, you can see that too on my instructables page...