Away Penlite

This is a writeup for an old hack i did when i was a kid.

richardginus

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Description

It was somewhere in the end 2006, i was about 13 years old. I recently got a Lego Mindstorms NXT. After playing with it for a while i found that the device would empty its six battery's in just hours. A solution needed to be found.

P.S.

I remember this was also the time i read about something called 'Arduino' on some black with green website....

Components

1 × Dowel Rod
1 × Phillips screw
1 × 1 mm drill
1 × Flathead screw
1 × Saw LEDs and Accessories / Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)

Build Instructions

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Step 1

Saw off 2 48 mm pieces of dowel rod
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Step 2

drill a hole 10 mm deep into one of the ends
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Step 3

Drill a hole through the side off the rod 7 mm from the end into which you have drilled the other hole