Blog #5

^Pictures of lamp without lighting^

Last lesson I started on lighting. I started by measuring how long my strip of LED light should be and cutting it out. Then I collected 1 red and 1 blue wire. Firstly, I had to use the soldering iron make two small blobs of the soldering metal onto one end of the strip of LED light. Then I soldered a little of the metal onto the end on both wires. I then carefully placed one of the wire ends onto the blob and melted them together. After I had finished soldering, I had to check if the light was wired right and worked, so I put each end of the red and blue wire attached to the strip of light to the two main wire. Sadly, for some reason it didn't light up. I went back to investigate the source of the problem and found that there was to much of the soldering metal. So after I fixed that problem and the light was working, I went and put the black rubber tube over where the wire attached to the LED light strip to protect it, and sealed it shut with a blow torch. The last thing I had to do was attach the light strip to the top of the lamp structure, stick the wires in place and last but not least, push in the long white strip to cover up the wires. I really enjoyed todays lesson and can't wait for the next when I might be able to finally finish my lamp!