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LED Brain Construction

This LED Brain was created based on the 3D printer files provided at www.thingiverse.com.  The link to the files and instructions are at

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:620846

I made the LED Brain per djholt's instructions with a few minor changes. I printed the brain without any modifications to the STL files as djholt provided. Here is a list of materials I used for printing and the LED's I used to get to get the color changing effect. My daughter is going into the medical profession so I made this as a gift for her since she likes this sort of thing.

I printed all components using a Lulzbot mini. I had to reduce the size to .97 in Cura to get it to fit.

I printed the brain halves using clear 3mm ABS I got on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KGKYA4Q?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00

I printed the base and supports using 3 mm black ABS.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J7ZCTYY?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00

For the LED's, I used 5 mm RGB slow rotating LED's. I have three LED's wired to the AAA cell battery pack. I did not use resistors. The LED's will stay on for about 4 days continuously without a battery change.

The LED's were purchased at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007RO9X82?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00

The rocker switch for the base was also purchased at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056F5D4M?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00

As always, I sprayed the black ABS with a coat of satin lacquer. Lacquer dries within 5 minutes and leaves a nice sheen on the ABS.



LED Brain
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