Build an USB LED Light From an Old Webcam

If you have an old damaged webcam, you can use it to make an USB LED light.

Tools:

• Soldering iron
• Driller
• 5mm Drill
• Multimeter
• Hot glue gun
• Adhesive tape
• Miscellaneous tools

Components

• Old webcam
• 1 - 5mm LED high bright (white or other colour)
• 1 - Resistor 200 Ohms

Disassemble the webcam and remove the pcb.

Use the lens support to fix the LED, in my case I needed to make a 5mm hole with a driller.

Solder the 200 Ohms resistor to the LED.

Cute the USB cable end connector and connect the cable in your PC to find the 5 Volts wires.

Then, connect the 2 wires (in my case the black and red) to the LED, the positive cable must be connected to the anode LED terminal (the big terminal), in my case it's where I soldered the resistor.

Protect one of the terminals with adhesive tape or a small piece of plastic wire cover to avoid a short circuit.

Fix the LED to the the lens support with hot glue and mount your new webcam LED light.

Connect it in your PC USB port and voilà, use your new cheap LED ligh.