Introduction: Cardboard Lantern

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For this time's project, I'm going to recreat a Cardboard Lantern, which I get the idea from "spikytuna" (https://www.instructables.com/Cardboard-Shoji-Lantern/). I'm going to add a big base for my lantern, where I can put my Arduino board. Also, I will be adding 0.1 min in every delay that's used in the coding part, which I think it will make it look better by solwing down the pase of the LED light.

Supplies

  • Cardboard
  • Thin paper
  • Glue / tape
  • Cutter
  • Ruler
  • Pen
  • Arduino Board
  • WS2812B

Step 1: Making the Lantern

We are first going to make the lantern, whcih requires cardboard, cutter, tape, ruler and pen. First, cut 2 cardboard square (10 cm by 10 cm), after this, cut a 6 cm by 6 cm little square in one of the bigger square. Next, cut four 16 cm by 10 cm rectangle, with 8 cm by 8 cm square in the top, and two 8 cm by 1 cm rectangle at the bottom.

After cutting the cardboard, tape the thin paper on to the window of all cardboard. Finally, glue all the pieces together.

Step 2: Attach LED Light

Now, prepare some paper and roll it into a stick, then attach the LED onto the stick and place it in the middle of the lantern.

Step 3: Coding

The coding that we used is modified by FastLED's Fire2012, in which we changed the color and gets the code from "spicytuna" (https://www.instructables.com/Cardboard-Shoji-Lantern/).

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