LED paper ball
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Time: Near an hour
From scrap: ██████████ 100%
PreambleOnce the Internet I found the picture of glowing paper ball, and began to dig further. I've found the drawing, and not even a word about the assembly instructions. After sitting for a couple of hours, I figured out how to assemble this ball. At the end of this post you will find a step by step video instructions with the assembly process from start to finish.
Materials- Thick paper or thin plastic
- Flashlight
Tools- Pen or pencil
- Or printer
- Scissors
- Step 1
Printer paper does not works in this project, buy a drawing paper. Print or draw element from next photo to paper. Size is optional, make 30 of it.If you don't have a printer, you can press a thin paper to the screen of your computer, redraw contour, and then cut. Then use it like a stencil
- Step 2
Cut all 30 piecesUse a little scissors, it's more comfortable
- Step 3
There is assembled ball with LED flashlight inside. I think I need a slowly changing color LED backlight and this projects will be awesome.
So, how to make paper ball
VideoHow to assemble it! In this video I used thin green plastic from paper folder, it's not so good.
Results and tips- If you make it carefully, you will achieve a very beautiful thing
- You can use it as night stand
- And of course it is a nice DIY gift
