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I am going to show you my Mini Aquarium powered via USB. I made this to sit by my computer on top of my desk and it is made for a betta, And I think one would look great in this bowl. Now the color you see in the first picture is NOT the only color this bowl can be, it actually turns on a combination of a red, blue, and yellow LED to make a color show. There will be a video and more pictures later on.
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In the pictures you can see the bowl that I used, which is called a Betta bowl.
Then I found a scrap piece of balsa wood and traced the top of my bowl onto it and cut it out. I cut the balsa wood into a half
moon shape so I would have a small opening so that I could still feed my fish without having to take the whole top off.
Then I found a small circuit board that had red, yellow, and blue leds on it and a controller that turns the LEDs on and off in patterns. I glued the small circuit board onto the balsa wood after cuttin a small notch for the LEDs to fit into. A switch was soldered onto the positive lead followed by a 47 ohm resistor, then I soldered the end of my USB cable to the end of the resistor, and the negative wire of the cable to the negative terminal on the circuit board.
Then I found a scrap piece of balsa wood and traced the top of my bowl onto it and cut it out. I cut the balsa wood into a half
moon shape so I would have a small opening so that I could still feed my fish without having to take the whole top off.
Then I found a small circuit board that had red, yellow, and blue leds on it and a controller that turns the LEDs on and off in patterns. I glued the small circuit board onto the balsa wood after cuttin a small notch for the LEDs to fit into. A switch was soldered onto the positive lead followed by a 47 ohm resistor, then I soldered the end of my USB cable to the end of the resistor, and the negative wire of the cable to the negative terminal on the circuit board.
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Vishalapar, it's not strictly against the rules, but it's considered rude around here to spam other peoples Instructables with promotions for your own.
I rarely ever give out negative comments, but I do sometimes.
But maybe you are right I should not ask people to have a look at my ibles!