Zedomax DIY 128 – HOW TO Make a Glowing Heart LED Night Light!

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I was at my local Dollar Store the other day and when I saw this Heart shaped Touch Light, I had to hack one for my gf.Here’s a quick hack on how to make a regular Touch Light and make it into a Glowing Heart Night Light.

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Parts List

Touch Light from local Dollar Store: $1

CB220 Proto Board: $5

CB220 Module: $34

12V Adaptor: $9

11 RED High Output LEDs : about $5

Soldering stuff

screw driver

Total Cost for parts: $54

1) First you get the parts ready…

2) Unscrew the screws on the Tough Light and open it up.

3) Build the Proto-board and then build the circuit.

4) Get rid of the bulb.

5) You can use a 12V adaptor to power the thing or use 9V battery too.

6) Cut the end of the adaptor and slide it through the holes in the Heart Touch Light.

7) Connect the cut lines to the DC Jack of the protoboard

8) Connect the DC Adaptor ends as shown above.

9) Place the whole board on top.

10) Get a piece of plastic or make a little film piece using scotch tape.

11) tape it nice so the board stays in tact.

12) Download this program to the CUBLOC CB220 module:

Const Device = CB220

Dim Duty As Integer
Dim direction As Byte
Dim onoff As Byte
Dim ct As Byte
onoff=0

Output 5
Output 6
Output 7

Duty=0
direction=0
On Timer(5) Gosub here

Do
Loop

here:

	If direction=0 Then
		Duty=Duty+25
	Else
		Duty=Duty-25
	End If

	Pwm 0,Duty,1024
	Pwm 1,Duty,1024
	Pwm 2,Duty,1024

	If Duty>1024 And direction=0 Then direction=1
	If Duty<5 And direction=1 Then
		direction=0

		For ct=0 To 15
			onoff = onoff Xor 1
			Out 0,onoff
			Out 1,onoff
			Out 2,onoff
			Out 3,onoff
			Out 4,onoff
			Wait 50
		Next
	End If

Return

12) Screw the whole Touch Light together and test it out!

Printable Wiki version here

6 Responses to Zedomax DIY 128 – HOW TO Make a Glowing Heart LED Night Light!

1. Andy says:

   April 28, 2007 at 12:25 am

   the strobe would keep me up at night (it must be a night time party light)
2. max says:

   April 28, 2007 at 9:56 pm

   yeah, that might be the idea there… hehe…
   Great IDEA! :0)
3. girrrrrrr2 says:

   August 26, 2007 at 9:12 am

   you should add a function to make the whole thing shut off after a certian time…
4. Izl says:

   August 28, 2007 at 3:22 pm

   Thats cool , good gift for the girls

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