Day 10: A light house and a bug light

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Day 10 - Saturday.

Saturday night, I summoned up my courage to tackle the very intimidating problem of adding a light switch. The previous day I have 5 rocker light switches arrived. As a matter of fact, my house has become a steady stop of delivery men and women. My supply of electronic parts with all beautiful names such as SPDT,  IC 74HC595, three-pong rocker switches, stepper motors is steady growing and in danger of overflowing. Still every time I want to do a project, I found I have some parts missing.

Anyway Saturday night, I was working on hooking up a rocker switch with 2 AA batteries and a LED night. Fortunately, with the help of YouTube videos, I was able to quickly nail the switch problem. 

Yay, I got the switch to work

Another impossible feat of that night was I learned that the colorful plastic tubes are your regular plastic,  they are heat-shrinkable tubes. No idea where to find or how to use a heat gun (I later found we do have a heat gun), I fished out some matches and started burning the tubes, I was delighted to find that matches seem to work just fine, my tubes shrunk to wrap my wires tightly, even though it made my yellow tube black.

A bug night light made with a ping pong and some paper clips

After messing with switches and tubes, I proceeded to go low tech again and made a bug night-light for Yung, with a switch. Turned my connections were again unstable, and the light very often needs some wiggling and proding to go on or off.