Light Panel for Flipbook Animation

Recently, my 9 year old son has shown interest in sketching and flip book animation. In one of the tutorial videos on Youtube, the tutor used a light panel and he wanted one too.

So in this instructable, I will share how we made a A6 size light panel and yes my son helped me build this. Some of the design aspect came from him

Material

• Plywood frame ( 2" x 7" X 5") - 15mm or 9/16"
• Acrylic sheet ( about 0.5MM or 1/64 inch )
• LED Strip ( white Led 3228, 12V )
• 5.5x 2.1mm DC Socket
• 9v AC to DC adaptor
• News paper cutting
• Wires
• PVA glue
• Soldering iron
• Cutter

• I had made this in past for my bluetooth speakers, but were too large for that project, And had been lying around since 2 years
• While looking for items to build this project I found this and decided to use it as the inner side was same as the A6 page size
• To build this frame
  • Use 15 mm or 9/16" plywood
  • Cut two strips each for 7" x 2" and 4" x 2"
  • Sandwich the smaller piece with two larger ones
  • Glue the joints and nail them, to hold position
  • Let it dry for a day
• Paint the frame with white acrylic paint, let it dry
• Use PVA glue ( diluted in water 2:1 ratio) to stick newspaper cuttings
• We basically used the daily garfield joke and some drawings from the news paper
• Coat the pva solution on top of the picture too, let it dry for few hours

• Initially was planning to fit a 9V battery but we decided to use a power adaptor
• Drill 11mm hole or as per the dc socket
• Stick the LED strip exactly at the center, as show.
• Glued the strip as it was not sticky enough
• Connected the wires to the DC socket and tested the strip works with the adaptor

• Trace the main body frame on acrylic frame ( frosted )
• Cut two pieces
• One stick on the top and th other on the bottom
• Add a aluminium foil at the bottom before closing it
• Use PVA glue to stick acrylic sheet to wooden frame

Light it up and start using it for flipbook animation

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