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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.

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Step 1Materials

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.

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8 comments

Sep 5, 2009. 6:01 PMdragonx34 says:

that is cool

Oct 11, 2008. 7:43 PMRadioactive_Legos says:

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.

Jan 3, 2008. 6:20 PMShifrin says:

Wow, awesome!

Nov 19, 2007. 5:35 PMGorillazMiko says:

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

Oct 25, 2007. 7:27 PMguyfrom7up says:

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?

Nov 1, 2007. 12:40 PMjarv34 (author) says:

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.