Light Up LED Smiley Face (with reusable parts)

I love the look of LEDs and reusing old stuff to make new stuff. My Light Up Smiley Face uses LEDs and recycles an old CD, an old power brick from a radio, and some other old "electronic stuff" I've salvaged. I made this with about $3 worth of LEDs. I soldered the LEDs but if you want to reuse them too, just join them using a sleeve to prevent shorting.

Step 1 What you need

Here's what you need to make the Light Up Smiley Face:

Voltage meter
20 Assorted LEDs (from Radio Shack, part 2761622)
IC (integrated circuit) board from the electronic stuff box at home
220 OHM 1/4 W 5% carbon film resistor (Radio Shack sells them if you can't salvage one: part 271-1313)
Power brick (recycled from a broken radio)
Solder, soldering iron with fine tip
An old CD
A piece of scrap wood

A soldering workstation with alligator clips is nice, if you have one. See my cool one in the picture.

Comments

[qballcat]

how old are you? you look like your 10

[Kateham]

ya

[jeoncs]

Such a lucky kid! He gets to use better stuff than I do haha

[Kateham]

Well, my Dad has a lot of stuff in the garage. It's close to heaven. When I was 5, I made robots out of his "extra parts" (except they couldn't move).

[ikssk]

Keep it up kid, good job.

[Kateham]

Thanks. This is my first instructables. It's also my science fair project.

[ChrysN]

Great smiley!

[Kateham]

I really like it. I added a switch to it since I posted the project. It's sweet!