Erik's LED Christmas Pop-up Card

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Erik's LED Christmas Pop-up Card

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Create a simple LED pop up card with just paper, glue, copper tape, battery and LED lights!

Supplies

Materials needed:

  • Paper (at least 180gsm)
  • Colour markers or colour pencils
  • Glue Stick
  • Copper tape
  • LED light sticker (chibitronics used in this card example)
  • double-sided tape
  • scissors
  • Battery (3V)

Create Your Pop-up Folds and Design Your Card

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Start drawing and cut out your drawings for the Christmas card. For the example, v-fold is used for the christmas tree to make it stand up when the card is opened.

For v-fold pop-up, make sure you have 2 additional tabs to stick on your drawing later.

Decorate your card.

Build LED Circuit

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On a new piece of paper, use copper tape to create a simple circuit.

Position your battery first (3V) and paste the tape on the new paper.

Connect your LED sticker to the position where you want it to light up.

Test It Out, Enjoy!

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Try to close your pop up card and open to test if the pop-up folds fit well and if the circuit lights up the LED.

Have fun!