LED Throwies

Step 5: Toss your Throwie

The LED throwie is ready to be tossed onto a ferromagnetic surface. Practice tossing your throwies. Work on your accuracy and your own personal technique. Every throwie wont stick every time, but if you toss them gently, they will stick eventually. Get them up high and in large quantities for greatest enjoyment.

Comments

[ms10]

cool keep up the good work

[WearJDV]

Great work on this tutorial ... it's a shame to see so much flaming going on in the comments. Keep up the great work Q-Branch

[RyuuichiNaruhodou]

Hi, I noticed that there's IR LEDs as well in that website you posted, I was wondering if these http://bit.ly/rv0aze would survive the 2032 battery just as the LEDs you used in this instructable. Thanks!

[cool knex13]

cool

[twitsl]

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[Glockenator]

a reusable throwie is useless because you want them to stay up there till everybody sees them

[masonrulz]

 cmon, have a little fun in life. they will probably not come off for a while, in wich time some jerk will probably take them down. 
if you have a more eco friendly version of this, then post it! but if not, theres no reason why the rest of us cant have fun.

[jm121]

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[twitsl]

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[jm121]

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[twitsl]

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[wolf555hound]

it would be very expensive, but....maybe, a solar throwie? then during night, they turn on?

[shammallamaman]

That would become kind of expensive

[hawkfrost64]

not really. there are solar panels that are paper thin and cost like, 25 cents. 

[diy_bloke]

but the solarpanels are brittle, they might not survive the throw

[twitsl]

Good idea!!!!!

[viacin]

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[Calypzo]

How long is the battery life for these?

[Redgerr]

quite a while, led's use up so little power its incredible.. I took a dead AAA battery and hooked it up to a led.. lasted about 7 days on all the time before my mom threw it out... UGH.. so lets just say they last O_o

[spinach_dip]

It's "I beam," not "eye beam" because the cross section of the beam is shaped like a capital "I" with serifs.

[Keanan]

Actually eyebeam is the name of a lab at Graffiti Research Labs.

[LostMachine]

As long as we’re being pedantic the picture you posted is not a I-beam it is a Wide flange beam also called a H-beam. I-beams are rarely made these days. ; )

[diy_bloke]

:-)
Isn't a wide flanged H just an I on its side?

[Bradlez92]

BUUUUUUUUURN!!!!!!1!!!!1

[timothypedersen]

Ever hear the term "play on words"?

[jaredsalzano]

actually, no haha

[london mike]

Hey I found that the magnets that hold the glass on the front of a Aqua vision bath room screen are super strong, which could increase mounting success. I'm off to light up the night.

[B33FY92]

hey i was wandering y you put the magnet on it

[Radioactive_Legos]

So you can stick the throwie on metal walls and light posts and stuff like that. The only problem with the magnets is that you'll have a hard time getting them down if you throw them too high.

[hac]

The difficulty of retrieving them is what makes them so great...

[Radioactive_Legos]

That is, if you want to leave them up for all to see. I guess I'll be doing that because I just wone 3rd prize for the Let it Glow contest, "Razor Scooter Underglow Double Mod!"

[hac]

Congrats. I'm trying to think of some ideas...

[TeacherOfTheWays]

6. now go to a group for only the most c r a z y wallets of such fun, and whats in a title but the number 1.

[AzraelUK]

Actually, 'Eyebeam' is the name of an R&D lab, a subdivision of which is the Graffiti Research Lab (http://graffitiresearchlab.com/), who made LED throwies. So, what it meant was: 'The structural columns inside the Eyebeam R&D lab are perfect for throwies'

Geez, don't you guys know anything ;)?