Mousebot Revisited

Step 8 Construct Mousebots top half

First drill three small holes at the front of the mouse for the two eyes and sensitivity boosting LED. Then drill a larger hole for your toggle switch at the back of the mouse and install the switch to form mousebots on/off tail.

To create mousebots eyestalks twist two pieces of solid core wire together and solder the IR emitter to the leads on one end. Place the LED in the middle hole and connect the + lead to the 1k resistor.

Next use the diode check feature of your multimeter to find the - leads of the IR emitters and connect them to the - lead of the LED.

Comments

[magiccowy]

+ is always the longer wire but look inside the actual thing and the smaller one is the anode (+) the larger one above it is the cathode (-) hope that helps

[jwoo2023]

thankyou very very very very very very much!

[jwoo2023]

Is the a mark?

[jwoo2023]

wow thanks a lot
!!!!!

[Mudbud]

yeah I agree with magiccowy.  you can use that techneec for all LEDs

[jwoo2023]

how do you know which side is + and - on the infra red emmitors?