P9020068.AVI(320x240) 15 MB
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Signing UpStep 1Parts needed, and where I got them
Wooden Box (found at Micheal's arts and crafts)
Project board (I bought at www.besthongkong.com, also at Fry's Electronics)
LEDs (I bought at www.besthongkong.com, also at Fry's Electronics)
Resistors for my project I used 150 ohm resistors, but whichever kind you need for your LEDs, how I have found out is by going to http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz which is a LED calculator, you plug in your information and it tells you the array and what resistors to use. (I bought at www.besthongkong.com, also at Fry's Electronics)
Mercury Switch (found at Fry's Electronics, but I am sure Radio shack has them too)
9V Battery plug (found at Fry's Electronics, but I am sure Radio shack has them too)
9V Battery (found just about everywhere)
Fogged hard plastic (Home depot, Lowe's)
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Glad you liked the project enough to build one! Thanks for the comment, but in the future please try not to put people's instructables down, thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4YsZeHbTRk
The box isn't quite done yet... but I have the basic part of it done.
2. I had this in mind before seeing Mr. Bond having the same idea - Experiment by adding more mercury switches and having arrays of various colored LEDs so once the box is upright and on, you can move the box to the other sides and the mercury switches can be setup to turn off one color and turn on another. So, you could have green when the box is on one side, move 90 degrees and it will turn red, move another 90 degrees and it can be blue, and so on. AND, it's rather easy to break glass mercury switches and the stuff is toxic and almost impossible to clean up, so the switches that use the rolling balls is a good idea!
I've been planning to do that exact thing for quite a few months now but never taken the time.
I was thinking about making the cube out of clear acrylic and putting white paper on the inside.
I was gonna use pretty bright LED's (one or two for each color turned toward each side of the cube) and use ping pong balls cut in half to try to disperse the light evenly over the interior surface.
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http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G16165
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http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G16165
http://shop2.frys.com/product/136740?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG