LED Box

my name is Nailah sepeda this project that I will be doing this counter is making a lightbox have been learning about it and doing assignments on the lightbox and how and what it does. I am trying to build a lightbox that has the right dimensions. Also, have to make a strip with a hole in it to put my Engraving Acrylic that will fit. I will have an LED strip under the strip to make it light up. Then my last step is to put it together and make sure it works.

Step 1: ​Materials and Equipment

Materials:

1. PLA 1.75 mm

2. 3 mm acrylic

3. LED strip 12V

4. AC/DC 12V converter

5. heat sink tubing

6. solder

Equipment:

1.Creality CR-10s Pro

Epilog laser

sodering iron

wire cutters

Step 2: Cutting and Engraving Acrylic

1. Go to google and find a Black and withe stencil image ,with an easy pattern to trace .

2. I used google draw ,to trace my image

3. I imported my image , used a close line tool to trace my image

4. I used coral draw to put it on the templet

5. I then used a Epilog Laser to print to in grave my acrylic

Step 3: Designing and Printing the Box

1. I used an app called Tinkercad

2. Your going to want to sign in with google, Click the button " create new design" .

3. Tittle it in the the left hand corner , Just so you know what the design is.

3. Before you want to start your going to want to put a Ruler in the corner one the surface.

4. I used the shapes box, Cylinder, I also used text to put words on my box and lid.

5. The pictures above will show you the dimensions for each shape.

6. Once you start to cut through your shapes make sure to high light what you want to group then press the group button up at the top.

7. Once your done with the box and lid your going send it to a creality or any 3D printer to start the making of your design.

Material for the creality :

The plastic to make the box -PLA - color black

Step 4: Electronics and Wiring

steps :

1. make sure to put on safety glasses.

2. grab the switch and make sure you have something to hold it while working on it .

3. next you're going to get a power source and cut off the ending just a little

4. next you're going to pull apart the -,+ wires and cut off the blacktop only just a little bit, not that much. and put them through the little hole.

5. you're then going to put the negative wire through the hole and twist it on there.

6. next take your soldering pen, and your it on your sawer, and once you have some on your soldering pen put it on the wire to make sure its stays in place.

7. next you're going to take a positive wire and cut a little bit off to where the wires are showing and do the same thing as the negative.

8. take an led strip and look for the positive and negative.

9. then put the positive wire and solder it to the positive led and the negative do the same thing.

10. take big straws and cut it just enough to where it covers the wires, not the led lights.

11. Heat shrink till it can shrink no more.

12. then your going to super glue the led to the place it goes.

13. snape on your switch and be very careful to not break it, if it breaks super glue it

14. plugin your power sources to see it turn it on

15. put in your Acrylic and see it glow

Materials:

1 your lightbox.

2. power sources

3. heat shrinker

4. soldering pen

5. protection glasses

6. led strip

7. switch

8. straws to cover the wires

9. helping hands

10. sawder

11. strong glue

Step 5: Assembly

1. make sure you glue your led strip so it stays as you light it up.

2. adjust your wires so the lid closes.

3. put on your lid to see if it fits if not glue it to the box.

4. make sure when you plug it in it works.