Arduino RGB LED Spinning Night Light: Assembly
Solder wires to motor terminals and cover with heat-shrink tubing
- Using a knife or sharp scissors, puncture a small hole (to fit the motor shaft snugly) on the center of the jar lid
- Solder motor shaft to jar lid (if necessary use hot gun or super glue, as some surfaces won’t “catch” the solder easily)
- Solder the RGB LED leads to long wires and cover the connections with heat-shrink tubing
- Build the circuit on the mini breadboard using the schematic as your guide
- Prepare the paper diffuser (use a hole puncher and punch a few holes to allow some light to shine through) and tape it around the jar lid using mounting tape
Arduino RGB LED Spinning Night Light
This month’s project uses the Arduino to control a motor and an RGB LED to create an aquarium style spinning night light.
The initial idea was to recycle empty toilet paper tubes to serve as the lampshade, but it turns out the project looks much more attractive and colorful using white paper. (I haven’t given up on the idea of finding a use for the empty tubes, though. Suggestions are welcome.)
A simple DC motor is used to spin the lamp structure, and a jar lid serves as the base. There is (a lot of) room for improvement in the design of the lamp, but I’m a computer scientist and wanna-be crafter at best.
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