The dual led flasher is a simple electronics project for beginners.

You can buy all the components online, and it takes about 30 minutes to solder everything in place.

At the end you get a nice little gadget that cycles between two leds about every second.

Step 1: The Tools You Will Need

You will need a soldering iron, I got mine from sparkfun, and it is a great beginner's soldering iron:

You will also need some solder (I recommend you use the lead free version):

A third hand will help you hold everything in place:

Step 2: Parts and Schematic

To build this project you will need:

2 X 470 Ohm resistors

2 X 100K Ohm resistors

(You can get the resistors from the Sparkfun Resistor Kit, it has 500 resistors, including what we need, and it's good to have)

2 X 22uF capacitors (you can get those from eBay or amazon, for about 0.3 $)

2 X PNP transistors

2 X 5mm LEDs (whatever color you like)

1 X mini SPDT switch

1 X 9v battery clip (Sparkfun only sells them with connectors on the end, remove it with cutters / wire stripers)

You will also need a board to solder it to, you can use a protoboard (follow the schematic) or order one from http://oshpark.com (use the brd file).

Put everything in place according to the picture and the schematics.

Solder it in place, if you don't know how to solder check this video:

Finally solder the 9v connector in place.

That's it, the project is complete!

If you have built this project leave a comment, share it with your friends and follow me, there are more projects coming!