This gingerbread house was made for a competition we had in school one winter.

We won first price in all categories.

This is a project from back in winter of 2006 that I wanted to share with you…

The winter is coming to Sweden fast,
When I go to work in the morning; Its dark
When I go home from work in the evening; Its dark

I cant see in the dark so I needed to work around this, this is why I started this project.

step one: Night-blades!

An old pair of 500mm woodblades will do fine

I used my dremel to cut out for the leds on the tip’s

Time to cut out for the wires that is going along the whole blade

It’s there, it’s just hard to see

We need LiPo power

Flatening the ends on the LEDs that is going to be on the tip

Cuting out for the LEDs that is going to be on the leading edge

I used CA to glue the leds and the wires down, and later Im going to fill it with epoxy

Fitting the leds on the leading edge

I sanded the leds sharp to make the light reflect better

Ahhh, You got to love the smell of epoxy

I sanded the epoxy down using fine sandpaper(400-1000 grit)

Fitting the LiPo’s and connectors

I calculated that I needed a 10ohms resistor to not fry my leds and giving me the maximum use-time (4-6h)

The jumper I made to turn on the leds. To charge the battery I simply plug in the charger on the middle and left pins.

The reason I shose Blue and Green is that both had the same specs. 3.2-3.4v (max 3.8V) and 20mA typ.

Total wheight of one night-blade.

And one stock blade.

Step two: The leds on the heli

LM317 type constant current boards that I got from work.

This project began back in the summer of 2005.
I wanted to build a crawler, but not one that was to big or expensive.
I wanted to use a TLT-1 but it was extremely hard to come by one here in Sweden.
By chance I spotted a used one in a buy/sell forum a short while after I had given up on the Idea of using the TLT-1.
It was a good price so I grabbed it as soon as I could.

Here is the transformation from simple TLT-1 to a wicked rock crawler.

This was a school project that we made in our 3:rd year of secondary school (gymnasium) back in 2006. We decided to make a play movie about the adventure we had with our 1:18th RC cars. I drove a Team Losi Mini-T and my partner a Kyosho Mini-Inferno.

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