Cheap emergency lantern DIY

ledaholic · Oct 22, 2008

I kept looking at this 100 CD stack storage thing thinking "that thing looks light related" when it dawned on me -

Cut a hole in the bottom and add your favorite flashlight! Makes a very good lamp.

Sgt. LED · Oct 23, 2008

BRAVO!
:thumbsup:

Katdaddy · Jan 8, 2009

I've got an empty one of those also. I didn't throw it away, just knowing I would come up with some use for it.

Thanks!!!!

kyhunter1 · Jan 15, 2009

Neat.

Alan B · Feb 16, 2009

Great idea. But where are the beamshots?? :poke:

cernobila · Feb 16, 2009

Line half of the inside with white cardboard and you have a directional light....perhaps add a white piece of cardboard in the ceiling and you may have a flood thrower ?!?

PCC · Feb 17, 2009

Wouldn't aluminum foil work better?

I was thinking of just throwing two of those DIY Pak-Lite type lights inside one of those spare CD-R containers I have laying around and lining the base with aluminum foil to reflect back some of the light that is lost from reflections inside the thing.

LEDAdd1ct · Feb 17, 2009

Very cool idea!

blasterman · Mar 14, 2009

Over in the fixed lighting forum I'm using a very similiar concept in a project to build a Shoji style table lamp. Basically the LEDs sit open at the bottom and illuminate the sides. Except in the this case I'm using white fabric wrapped around and not plastic.

Same idea though....I love simple concepts like this that work out great. Good job.

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