Do it Yourself: Tiny Battery Lamp
Here’s another product which was probably designed by someone completely bored. This is what I imagine under funny but completely useless product – special Do It Yourself Battery Lamp. Yeah, it’s like LEGO, but you need an extra 9V battery here. The rest is simple – buy one of tens various designes and build your own mini lamp. Sold as “Designer Emulation Kit,” this kit consist of a series of flat pieces that you remove from the printed circuit board, assemble, and hook up to a 9-volt battery. The price is set to 26 bucks per piece, so it won’t ruin your wallet but there are also more useful things you can buy for these money…
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The only way I could see this being useful is if it could fit in a wallet.
why would u want a lamp like that?
YEah even i would like to know the same…
Guess because it looks “cute to have on your desk. lol
you could buy weed ^^
i did buy weed and then i couldn’t put my lamp together
Thank you Martin ! A perfect gift for my geek brother, he will like it !
“The price is set to 26 bucks per piece, so it won’t ruin your wallet” – well unlike you Martin, not all of us are big shot lawyers or stock traders to be buying lamps at $26. At $26 it wont ruin your wallet? Er…. for that money they should build the lamp and send it to my house and place it on my bloody desk! If I need a lamp – I’m sure the $10 one at Wal-Mart will do just fine, not giving $26 for something I have to build myself that looked like it came from China for $1.
cool little project !
I made a lamp that fits in my wallet. It cost only $0.60.
I took a standard 3v battery (CR2032), attached a wire to one side and covered that side with tape. I then took another wire and attached it to a metallic paperclip that conducts only on one side (one side of the paperclip is also taped). The free ends of the wires are connected to a white LED. So basically what I have is when I clip the battery the right way, the light turns on.
I used a paperclip instead of a switch because I can then use this same clip to attach the lamp to book. Its light, unobtrusive and pretty handy
So lets see:
9v battery conector 50 cents…
Circuit board 2 dollar…
white powerled 1 dollar..
3.50 total
22.50 euro’s of development cost?
@Nemo
That $10 lamp at Walmart IS made in China lol
Talking of 9V Batteries……………
What does a 9 Volt Battery and a womans arsehole have in common???
…..You know it’s wrong, but sooner or later you will touch it with your tongue and it will give you a nasty shock
@SyntaxError
That may be the case but at least the $10 will be made of proper plastic/metal, have a normal bulb, mains lead, plug, switch + flexibility/goose neck so it would be worth $10 and if it stopped working – i only lost $10. The $26 looks like it would fall over and break if you just coughed!
Who want a flash light? You Can go to a Dollar Store & Buy one for a few Bucks!
rotflmao @ Dodgy