[Fabrication] DIY Flashlight

The first project of the class is to make a DIY flashlight.

Flashlight comes in many forms, as soon as I figured out the circuit connection(see below) , I started to search around on closure.

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There are many options I came across, some of them are innovative and cute.

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Because I want to practice the tools demoed in first class, also for the sake of $200 lab fee, I decided to use polypropylene storage box as a closure, with batteries and circuit inside and a switch and LEDs on the surface.

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So, the tools and parts used are:

4 AA batteries (in Battery holder)

3 Super Bright LED (10mm)

1 rocker switch.

The tricky part is to solder everything together, and I forgot how much I hate soldering.

The end product looks like this:

When the switch is off —

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When the switch is on —

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