DIY: Make Milk Bottle LED Lights
Make Milk Bottle LED Lights at home and light up your place. The Arduino Controlled lights consume very little power and making them extremely easy.
To manufacture the lights themselves, you will need:
PPE milk bottles
Sheet of 3mm clear acrylic
2 core electrical cable (or speaker wire will do – it can be fairly light duty since it will only take about 12v and very little current, depending on how you design your circuit).
LEDs
Resistors
Solder
Heat shrink tubing
An old transformer (wall wart to Americans), plus socket+plug to go with it.
Braided copper wire
Solid core bell wire
Zip ties
Tools you will need:
Drill
Hole cutter (matched to the width of your milk bottle caps – see step 2)
Assorted tiny drill bits
Junior hacksaw (depending on what you use as a housing)
Screwdrivers
Wire strippers
Side cutters/Wire clippers
Soldering iron
Multimeter
Third hand (vital for soldering components together)
Desoldering wick (if you salvage any components from other devices)
Crocodile clip leads (for testing/prototyping).
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