The mini pumpkin LED face

This is a very simple and fun project for kids as well as adults. Using a small pumpkin as a circuit board I created an LED face powered by a 9v battery. This can be a neat little Halloween decoration for work or home. Now, on to the instructable.

Step 1 Materials

The main materials for this project is a little pumpkin (bought for about 70cents), a couple resistors and 7 LEDs.

5 LEDs were used for the pumpkin face and 2 for the eyes. Two current limiting resistors will double as eyebrows for the face.

Comments

[dragonx34]

that is cool

[Radioactive_Legos]

That's very cool! I'm surprised that the pumpkin doesn't short out the components. Someone should sell a kit that has a flexible PCB inside the (fake) pumpkin so you can just snap in the LEDs in the position you want for different faces.

[Shifrin]

Wow, awesome!

[GorillazMiko]

Another easier way to figure out what resistors you need, you can go here: http://ledcalc.com/

[guyfrom7up]

nice looking pumpkin there, great idea! Looks like you got all of your tools at the shack. Is your soldering iron the 60 dollar one?

[jarv34]

the soldering iron i had for awhile and i think it originally came from the shack. leds are expensive if you pick them up at radioshack so i suggest buying online somewhere like ebay.

[gmoon]

Congrats--you've gotten "hack-a-dayed"!

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[DIY Dave]

cool