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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 16
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 16

by Mark Frauenfelder
November 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 32m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 16

1+2+3 Alien Projector

Shine an alien, large or small, on any wall.

By Brian McNamara

This simple projector shines an image of an alien on the wall. It uses an LED as the light source and projects an image varying in size from a few inches to several feet. The simple circuit consists of only a battery, resistor, switch, and LED.

1. Build the basic circuit.

Trim the resistor and LED leads to ¼" long, and solder 1 end of the resistor onto the negative lead of the LED. Cut about 6" of wire, and solder it to the positive lead of the LED.

Put a piece of heat-shrink tubing over the black (negative) wire of the 9V battery clip, then solder the wire to the other leg of the resistor. Solder the red (positive) wire from the battery clip to the middle terminal ...

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