Lighting tutorial for my helmet.
While looking through some boxes came across an LED light that clips to your cap/hat.
Pulled it apart for the mirrored cones the LEDs sit in.
I want the light to be projected out as much as possible.
Then cut them all apart and glued them to my blue LEDs. Took some 15mm plastic plumbing pipe and cut four bits off to house the LEDs. Painted the parts that will be exposed black.
Here is a pic of all the bits used for 1 light.
1. Blue LED.
2. A strip of foil, mine was cut from the container my cheese cake was in from the night before
. Used it because the foil was nice and thick.
3. 15mm tube.
4. The cone I removed from the head light.
5. 2 pieces of frosted plastic. In the UK our milk comes in frosted plastic bottles so hacked one of those up. I guess clear plastic might work as well with hot glue sandwiched between them.
I glued the LED and cone together. Painted the tube black, rolled the foil into a tube to slot inside it (now most of the tube has a shiny interior) leaving about 4mm from the front. This lines the tube for extra reflectivity. Glued the cone to the rear end of the tube. This should mean the maximum amount of light is being pushed forward. I took the first of the 2 frosted discs and dropped it in to rest on top of the foil at the front of the tube. Dropped a blob of hot glue on top of it and placed the 2nd in pushing down so the glue filled the gap between the 2 disc and glueing them in place.
Hope all that made sense.
I cut the 2 holes then hooked up a battery to show you how it will look in the helmet. Not very good pics sorry using my phone camera.
