Homemade LED Fidget Spinner

by jedxjed in Circuits > LEDs

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Homemade LED Fidget Spinner

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Turn your trendy fidget spinner into something even more ADHD-inducing by adding LEDs.

You could buy one off Amazon, or you could make one yourself, which is always more rewarding. You can also swap out the LEDs for different-colored ones when you like!

Spinner - Scissors - Batteries - LEDs - Tape

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If you already have a fidget spinner and some stray LEDs, simply purchase a four-pack of 3V coin batteries. Everything else is something a common household may already own: tape and scissors.

Start by taking the coin batteries out of their pack.

Test the LEDs

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Test the LEDs to see if they light up with the batteries. When they do, tape them together. As you can see, I lined up the battery with the node to see where to align the LED and the hole.

Tape the Circuit Onto the Spinner Node

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This step's simple enough: tape the LED onto the battery, then take the circular circuit and place it atop one of the three nodes of the spinner. What I did was bend the LED to make the bulb go through the hole.

Add More LEDs

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You can get a decent hoop of light from spinning with one LED. Or you can go bigger and pop LEDs into the remaining two nodes.

Voila!

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Three LEDs in a fidget spinner? Awesome. Look at that. Looks just like the alien spaceship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Glow Stick for Millennials

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And there you have it. A homemade way to zazz up the trendiest new toy for ADHD-addled millennials. Bring these to the next music festival you fly off to. If it's a spectacular disaster like Fyre Festival, you can at least occupy yourself with this neat little doohickey!