I had a cardboard box last week, it came with a 50cm styrofoam ball in it , and immediately my little son confiscated the box. so with some cutting and cellotape I quickly made it into a small house that he can sit in. He is now in the process of decorating the house by glueing magazine cut-outs on the inside and outside.
The house needed a light! Just did a quick and dirty (and reversable) 10 minute mod (picture-taking took more time than the mod). This certainly has been done before but then I hope you enjoy seeing my version.
I used a modded sk68 clone (this one happened to have a Oslon SSL80 4000K 96CRI led, 1-mode stock boost driver) and one of the old-school film canisters that come with intl-outdoor orders. I removed the bezel/lens part, placed the flashlight head on the lid of the canister and drew a circle around it. I cut out the circle, fitted the lid on the head (I removed the o-ring first), and screwed the bezel/lens back on.
A paperclip was bent into a hanger:
Ready. I run it with a Duraloop NiMh battery in it.
zoomed out, zoomed in (makes no useful difference)
another paperclip was bent for a hook attached to the roof (btw, I made sure there are no sharp points sticking out).
Try unscrewing and removing the lens holder and lens from the SK68 before you put the film canister on. So the film canister would go over the bare LED. Without the lens and front of the bezel, the light should be substantially brighter.
I'd have to explain Halloween to him then :-) , we do not celebrate that in Holland. He actually likes spiders a lot, or any creepy animal for that matter
Bummer, I thought Holland was a civilized place… Halloween has taken over over here. I saw Halloween decorations go on sale in early August.
We used to have a lovely holiday between Halloween and Christmas called something like “Thanksgiving” where family and friends got together and stuffed their faces full of yummy home cooked meals followed by vigorous burping and belching and patting of bulging bellies. It seems to have disappeared and has been replaced with something called “Insane Shopping Violence Day” where people go out at insanely early times and try and kill each other to save a couple of bucks on yet another large screen TV that they don’t need.
Great work on the light on your part and Great work by your son on putting a box to work for him.
Looks like you 2 will have many more projects to work on
Actually, I’ve built several rockets out of cardboard boxes… that long triangular Fedex box in particular. Ever see a cardboard box fly at Mach 1+ speeds?
One particularly memorable box rocket that a friend of mine built and flew on one of my motors was really spectacular. When the motor burned out it was going several hundred miles an hour and the ejection charge blew early. The top came off and the full airflow rammed into the box and instantly shredded it into confetti… which fell from the sky for over 30 minutes…
, and immediately my little son confiscated the box. so with some cutting and cellotape I quickly made it into a small house that he can sit in. He is now in the process of decorating the house by glueing magazine cut-outs on the inside and outside.
