my first LED project

[theriaa]

taken in a dark room, no flash

6 green LEDs in cowl
4 white LEDs in green slurpee straws on bottom
2 white LEDs in yellow slurpee straws on top
4 LED keychain (with on/off switch) velcroed on wings, with 2 yellow straws
2 orange LEDs on top of tail
2 green LEDs on bottom of tail

powered by rechargable 800mah 3.6v 123A battery
LEDs,wire,solder,resistors,tape&heat shrink = 10g
LED keychains = 23g
123A batt = 17g

LEDs and lots of other stuff bought from dealextreme.com

theres also a drop module hidden in there (1st pic), for dropping LED parachutes

haven't flown it yet, but i'm pretty sure i'll need lipos (ordered them like a week of 2 ago... still in the mail) to stay high with that extra 123A, and key chain lights, as it's already pretty heavy

twas my 1st time working with LEDs and resistors and such. it's pretty easy with all the calculators out there, and just playing around with different resistors in alligator clips


.....this things bright as hell

[cjg]

That think will look like a UFO!

[theriaa]

i'm flying it in a couple hours with the lights, and an led parachute

just got my lipos today, WOW.

now i can finally get past 50 feet high! unlimited climb, unlimited loops! inverted! anything you want!

they're the 2200mah 3s mysterys on ebay, 2 for $40 shipped

and battery time is multiplied by 1000, i flew on each of my 2 packs for like 20 mins each, and they only went from 12.6 to 11.5!!!

[theriaa]

flew it, it's awesome, i took those yellow straws on top and the 2 key chain LEDs lighting up the plane off, there wasn't enough contrast far away