Monday, May 6, 2013

LED light hula hoop

So after shopping around for an LED light hula hoop, I decided that the price was too high for me.  $200 for a hula hoop?  Bah.  I found this website selling kits to make your own LED light hoop for $50 in as little as two hours!!  WOW!!  So, $75 and 3 days later, (they fail to include the cost of new tools and the time it takes to screw up said project and re-do it, oh, let's say, four times?)  I have a fabulous light-up hula hoop!  Seriously, though, I'm a chronic DIY-er, and I know what I'm in for when I try to make a thing I've never made before.  I figured it would be a pretty long and arduous undertaking.  4 days is nothing compared to some of the projects I have taken on.


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If you want to make your own, go to http://prodmod.com/

The instructions are about as clear as they can be.  This was my first attempt at an electrical project, so the fact that it works at all is a dream realized.  I'm thinking of doing some modifications (adding some weights inside to balance it, changing the coupling to a spring-button version for easier opening/closing...tape for grip, etc. etc. etc.), but it's totally functional as is, and folds up for easy travel.

Here, see it in action! (Sorry the picture is super distorted--it was filmed on a vertical phone and my geriatric version of Windows Movie Maker simply did not know what to make of this new style of filmmaking.)


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