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LED color changing Bird toy!

LED color changing Bird toy!
With a color changing LED, you can make your birds toy more fun! 
Materials:

Soldering gun and solder

Momentary switch (HAS to be able to be pushed with very little force unless your birds weigh a ton)

Battery pack (depends on the LED used)

2 pin color changing LED (out of a garden light)

Wire cutter and stripper

Small wire (Very small. Make sure there is no resistance of the wire and I used magnet wire.)
                    AND/OR other wire.. (Depends on the toy and your cage)

Hot glue gun

Heat shrink

Drill (depends on the toy you want lit up)
                

                 A cage to house the birds and the toys

                 Birds that love colorful objects (and mirrors, in this case)

                 Toys that have a lever like perch
                 (with mirror unless you know another way that can toggle a switch)
 
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Here are the toys I am talking about.

That orange perch folds/swings down and stops at that position.

I will be using that to toggle the switch.

Place the switch and mark where the switch will be on the white perch.
(I am using the white perch to hold switch up to the fold down perch)

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