Happy Hanukkah! Please enjoy this new tutorial from Erin St Blaine: Make a “magic” light-up dreidel with inductive power that lights up the dreidel as it spins over a copper coil embedded in a dreidel table. The table is made from an upcycled picture frame and mirrored so you get twice the light and twice the fun.
This is an easy no-soldering project that is really fun to make with kids. They’ll have lots of fun decorating the dreidels and making them light up and spin. From the guide:
Decorate your dreidels with magic lights this holiday season. These little wireless LED lights are one of the coolest things in Adafruit’s catalog. When they get in proximity to a powered induction coil, the lights wirelessly power themselves up and glow! No batteries, controllers, or wires are required.
Put them into your dreidel and the dreidel will light up when it spins over the coil!
This project is an easy and fun one to do with kids. There’s no soldering or tricky electronics knowledge required: just a drill press and a little belief in the magical power of physics.
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