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'Tis the season, and those little battery-operated tealights are in stores.
Yesterday and today, I made a hurricane lantern to mount on a wooden cart. It was cannibalized from one of those battery-operated tealights that use a round, CR-2032 battery.
It's intended to be rustic, so I hid it in a wooden tub. From what I can see. the circuit board is necessary to make the light flicker. Otherwise, the bulb can be directly wired to the battery and it will work, but you 'd lose the on/off switch feature. So, this project retained the flickering light and the on/off switch, but disguised the entire battery casing into a period-appropriate setting.
The skeleton is 4.75" tall. The lamp itself is a bit under 1", so this design can easily be adapted for MEGOs.
Most commercially made dollhouse lanterns either a) don't light up at all or b) are intended to use with dollhouse lighting, not CR-2032 batteries.
Tutorial below:
'Tis the season, and those little battery-operated tealights are in stores.
Yesterday and today, I made a hurricane lantern to mount on a wooden cart. It was cannibalized from one of those battery-operated tealights that use a round, CR-2032 battery.
It's intended to be rustic, so I hid it in a wooden tub. From what I can see. the circuit board is necessary to make the light flicker. Otherwise, the bulb can be directly wired to the battery and it will work, but you 'd lose the on/off switch feature. So, this project retained the flickering light and the on/off switch, but disguised the entire battery casing into a period-appropriate setting.
The skeleton is 4.75" tall. The lamp itself is a bit under 1", so this design can easily be adapted for MEGOs.
Most commercially made dollhouse lanterns either a) don't light up at all or b) are intended to use with dollhouse lighting, not CR-2032 batteries.
Tutorial below:
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