Making a cardboard ghetto blaster with fancy flashing LEDs

I made a cardboard box ghetto blaster for an 80s themed fancy dress party. I thought I'd share how I made it here.

What I used/What you will need:

• Cardboard box
• Various paints
• Masking tape
• 20 LEDs
• 40 wires about 10 inches long (depending on size of your box)
• Arduino kit
• Prototype board
• 12V battery (if you want to make this mobile)
• Arduino code: http://github.com/mrben/Arduino-Projects/blob/master/ghetto.pde

So go get all that and come back!

Here is a video of the finished product in action.

Step 1 Sketch a rough design on your box

Sketch out a rough idea of your ghetto blaster design on the box and take a picture for reference later on when we're painting it.

Use your favourite search engine to find some picture for inspiration if you need.

Comments

[ringraham3]

can you make it play music
??