Proto-Board Christmas Ornaments

This instructable shows you how to make simple, yet elegant Christmas ornaments by soldering with prototyping boards. It's a great way to practice your soldering skills, and to make a cool Christmas craft.

While practicing soldering on proto-boards, I realized that you could bend the wire into different shapes or letters to make designs on the board. After making a couple, I realized the holes in the proto-boards were the perfect size for Christmas ornament hooks, and I hung them on my tree.

Step 1 Materials

This instructable uses very few materials, all of which can be found around your house. After reading through all of the steps, you may want to include other components on your ornaments to spice them up.

You will need:
-Wire (non-stranded will work the best)
-A Prototyping Board (depending on the size of your ornament, you may need to cut the board into quarters)
-Solder
-Soldering Iron

**Remember: Always solder in a well ventilated area so you do not inhale any fumes that could arise.

Comments

[killerjackalope]

Nice one... The only complaint I have is the photos, a few nicer macros might be nice... I like the eventual outcome of these, if you find those red circuit boards, kind of rare, the only one I've got is rather vital to the working of my brother's pimped graphics card... But I digress, the red ones would give a very Christmassy look, you could add blinking LEDs or some such run off of button cells hidden on the back...

[Superchef]

I agree, some macro-focus photos would have complemented it well, but my camera was acting up at the time. Thanks for the comment!

[killerjackalope]

Try aiming to one side to get it to focus on the edge then move around to take the photos, might help a bit.

[jadeibet]

I like the finished products! Very cool idea superchef!