How To: Ping Pong Ball Lights

Step 4: Hang the Lights

All that's left to do now is to hang up your new set of ping pong ball lights and enjoy.

Comments

[random123outburst]

 they would be cool if they had an LED throwie in them so that you could throw them

[iApple guy]

The L.E.D. Pingie!

[vincent7520]

Nice !
Very nice iii… :))

[alxg37]

Do ping pong balls come in colors or did you paint them? You show all white ping pong balls.

[Dudeyowuzup]

The cool thing is you don't have to paint them. They glow they color of the light that's inside them.

[Ev]

Great idea. The "matte" finish makes them less twinkly holidaylike.

How about the seamless balls sold on e-bay? I'll try and report back.

I bought a bunch of LED holiday lights over the last few yearsafter Christmas, they're discounted 50% or more!

[harvey639]

OMG they r SO cool i am going t make a set for my room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[m0nde]

 very nice!

[CYNICALifornia]

I think these lights look really great! Now we just gotta make the strand look as good as the lights. I know the sell white strands, but could the strands be painted easily, such as with spray paint?

[mabeline65]

you could wrap the cord in embroidery floss. It's a lil time consuming and labor intensive but it looks great and there are tons of colors to choose from : )

[Lisa Fla]

To paint the light strand wires: before putting ping pong balls on, push the glass bulbs (only) into a sheet of styrofoam, then spray paint the rest. When dry, rearrange so that you can spray any spots you missed the first time. The embroidery floss sounds clever, but wouldn't you then have to worry about wire breakage > fire? Still waiting for someone to translate POI for us. Wish I could take credit for this idea, but I saw it on HGTV or something similar a few years ago on a holiday special.

[nanananananananabatman]

doesn't styrofoam melt when spray painted???

[komecake]

 ...not enough to actually melt it to the light. It's not like it's a hot melt either. It just gets soggy like bread basically. The styrofoam is temporary so that really shouldn't matter. o.0

[Hejjhog]

Oh my god best idea I've seen in a long while! I am SO gonna do that! THANK YOU!

[Evilthingamabober]

Go poke some extra holes in the ping pong balls so little spots of light go everywhere.

[zombiehottie0900]

TOTALLY YES! lol

[cjozzibozzi]

Should be able to burn little neat holes all over it you heat a metal implement and burn them into the ball. Caution...do outside. Not good to breathe in plastic fumes.

[M F]

good point

[Evilthingamabober]

Yaay for getting high off of fumes! Until you die of it, anyways...

[advancedMischief]

Ping pong balls are made from cellulose, which is highly flammable. Burning holes in one with a hot implement is probably a bad idea. There's a good chance you would ignite the ball.

[wolf555hound]

That's why they make good smoke bombs! kewl, thanks, now i know not to set then on fire making holes, sweet!

[Evilthingamabober]

"kewl, thanks, now i know not to set then on fire making holes, sweet!"
Dont set them on fire?
Are you crazy! Whats better than a krazy fireball?

[wolf555hound]

nothing at all.

[jehstr]

that is really cool. i might have to steal mums christmas lights haha.

[GitarGr8]

This is such a great idea. I'm gonna try this with some LEDs hanging at different lengths.

[2dMaxf]

This would be really cool on my mountain bike. I would do it with the battery operated rice lights I bought some years ago at Big Lots during Christmas time. Then nobody can say they didn't see me coming at night.

[indarch]

I love the effect but I wonder...do you have to worry about the ping pong balls heating up and melting if you leave these on too long?

[ian bernal]

hello. ping pong ball won´t melt. they are made with a very high content of cellulose, in case of overheating they will burn really fast. the leds can´t get that hot. check it here: [<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0J2CQ9W-3-k&hl=es"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0J2CQ9W-3-k&hl=es" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> ping pong ball on fire]

[advancedMischief]

I've ran them all day with no noticeable heating, so there shouldn't be a problem, but I would keep an eye on them just in case especially when first testing it.