I used frosted plastic from a milk jug to make the actual plumbob, I wired green red and orange LEDs to the inside so that way you could change you "mood"
adding the light is SO COOL. I may just do the paper and no lights. How did that headband hold up? I feel like I would need a wider one to hold up the plumbob. Although, if its just paper, maybe thats not too much of an issue.
I got them from a swedish electronics webshop as I live in europe but you can get them from amazon goo.gl/ccmNmd or any local electronics store. The battery case is like this one goo.gl/uNeHPX and the resistor was soldered directly to the battery case (not the best way to do it but it works ). I could do a separate video on how to do the soldering in more detail but you just connect the LEDs in series like this goo.gl/yCHI3q
Purkkaviritys The problem is how the wires are connected - I hate when I can't figure out how each wire is connected. I want a button for my costume, so I can turn it off and on :) Could you make a tutorial about that? Btw, I'm your neighbour... I live in Denmark :)
Iman Al Kole The webstore I frequent is www.electrokit.com/en/ even though I'm from finland. I'll try to make a tutorial on the wirin stuff later this week but audio is going to be crap as my studio mic pre-amp decided to let out the magic smoke.
Iman Al Kole a more in depth tutorial is now live Sims plumbob halloween costume: electronics more in depth if you need to have a extra switch or the battery case doesnt have one, then just put something like this imgur.com/Y0y8gt7 between the cable coming from the batteries and the LED on either side.
+Maggie Maloney the cable and the switch that was attached to the battery case were originally separate parts so they all need to be bought separatelly. Most battery cases only have like 2-3" cables which wont be enough.
+Maggie Maloney Any electronics or hardware store would have speaker cable, even most retail outlets will have plain 2 wire speaker cable which was what I used. So for ex. amazon goo.gl/JmQfr1 . I just took some wire from a spool that I had that was for speakers.
+edgar pena put it into a image editing program, press scale, ????, proffit. But the video description has a link to the scaled up version so you can just use that.
You'd need geared motor, extend the shaft to the mid part of the plumbob to hide it and the whole thing might need a beefier power supply to keep it running all night long.
I used frosted plastic from a milk jug to make the actual plumbob, I wired green red and orange LEDs to the inside so that way you could change you "mood"
matthew kemp holy shit thank you!!! I ended up here looking for someone who made a glowing plumbob xD or using glow sticks xD
matthew sweet! could I see what it looks like and are you willing to sale it to me or give
Amazing idea!! did you paint the frost at all?
Just wanted to say I made this (without the LED) and loved it!
Genuinely so so good!!!
adding the light is SO COOL. I may just do the paper and no lights.
How did that headband hold up? I feel like I would need a wider one to hold up the plumbob. Although, if its just paper, maybe thats not too much of an issue.
this is amazing!
Great video, thank you!
do you happen to have scaled up versions of the other colours that the original has?
But where did you buy the LED light from and can you make it more specifik on how you connected them :) Please answer me.
I got them from a swedish electronics webshop as I live in europe but you can get them from amazon goo.gl/ccmNmd or any local electronics store. The battery case is like this one goo.gl/uNeHPX and the resistor was soldered directly to the battery case (not the best way to do it but it works ). I could do a separate video on how to do the soldering in more detail but you just connect the LEDs in series like this goo.gl/yCHI3q
Purkkaviritys The problem is how the wires are connected - I hate when I can't figure out how each wire is connected. I want a button for my costume, so I can turn it off and on :) Could you make a tutorial about that?
Btw, I'm your neighbour... I live in Denmark :)
Iman Al Kole The webstore I frequent is www.electrokit.com/en/ even though I'm from finland. I'll try to make a tutorial on the wirin stuff later this week but audio is going to be crap as my studio mic pre-amp decided to let out the magic smoke.
Iman Al Kole a more in depth tutorial is now live Sims plumbob halloween costume: electronics more in depth
if you need to have a extra switch or the battery case doesnt have one, then just put something like this imgur.com/Y0y8gt7 between the cable coming from the batteries and the LED on either side.
Thank you so much :)
Did all that extra wire come inside of the battery case or do I need to buy that seperately?
+Maggie Maloney the cable and the switch that was attached to the battery case were originally separate parts so they all need to be bought separatelly. Most battery cases only have like 2-3" cables which wont be enough.
Purkkaviritys Do you know where I can buy the extra cable at? Online preferably please.
+Maggie Maloney Any electronics or hardware store would have speaker cable, even most retail outlets will have plain 2 wire speaker cable which was what I used. So for ex. amazon goo.gl/JmQfr1 . I just took some wire from a spool that I had that was for speakers.
how did you make the scaled up version?
+edgar pena put it into a image editing program, press scale, ????, proffit.
But the video description has a link to the scaled up version so you can just use that.
what could i use to make it spin over my head?
You'd need geared motor, extend the shaft to the mid part of the plumbob to hide it and the whole thing might need a beefier power supply to keep it running all night long.
Your voice is so.... mmmm
Can I just buy it off of you