Diy - Led Lamp To Illuminat Your Hookah Base! (wip)

[dyzel]

Please note : you need to be both practical and slightly tech savvy in order to make this!

Disclaimer : I take no responsibility for you wasting your money on electronic parts then f@*k%$g up this project.
I also take no responsibility for you making shoddy work resulting in your hookah losing balance and toppling over

I was looking at those fancy hookahs from meduse designs when i came across another product of theirs, the chameleon lamp!!

Its basically a LED lamp that sits under the glass hookah base, and lights it up, either with regular light, or even light effects that pulse to the music your listening to!!!

I thought this would be a radical idea.... it would be so cool to have light flashing to the beat of the music i was listening to, pulsating through the hookah smoke...

This is actually a Work in progress...

I figured it would be easier to update as i go along, as opposed to hurrying it all up.

Blue LEDS that pulse to music, respond extremely well to bass and trebble in music, so i opted to go for only blue LEDS. You can use any colour you want! you can even mix it up, and use different colours!!

Here is a list of the tools I used, you may be able to get away with using less:

-Scroll Saw
-Drill Press
-Bench top belt and disc sander
-Drill
-Countersink Bit
-Various Drill Bits
-Soldering Iron
-Phillips Screwdriver Bit

This is a list of materials that you need for it!

-Scrap Plexiglass (1/4 inch thick) should be slightly larger in area than the base of your hookah vase.
-Scrap wood plank (1 1/2inches or thicker) Slightly larger in are than the base of your hookah vase
-2 round PCBS
-9ultraviolet LEDs
-9 resistors
-Power Supply : 6V (old nokia charger or 4 AA batteries in a bracket)
-NPN Transistor
-LM340 voltage regulator
-Solder
-4 Black drywall screws

now... to start off - a circuit diagram showing where everything goes!

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first thing to get done, is to cut the wood and the plexiglass to size.
The wood first:

use the scroll saw to cut out a circle, around 2cm greater than the diameter of your hookah base.
After doing this, use a pair of compasses to cut out an inner cirlcle, forming a ring, roughly an inch thick.
Next step is to drill 3 holes into the side of the disc, prefferably all on the same side, next to one another.




Please note that mine is made out of composite not wood. wood looks better, and is easier to work with. Also notice that my holes are far apart... you may want to put them closer together, around a cm apart will do

next step is to cut a plexiglass disc, the diameter of the wood ring you just cut out. place this on top of the wood ring, and fasten it using the drywall screws.

this is now a completed base for your hookah to sit upon.
under this, the UV LEDs will be installed.

More updates as it comes along

[hookah_stud]

Hmmmmm..... I like this..... and definitely have the know how.....

[Scimita_R]

im really diggin this idea, please updates as soon as...wanna see it working, i will make one if yours is sucessful

[shelly69er]

bump. update man? i wanna try this

[spikeadams]

bump. update man? i wanna try this

I was thinking of doing this as well, and I think you could go to autozone and get some of the neon rope/electroluminescent wire as it has the controller to pulse with the music, under 20 bucks I think,

[ezxen]

I started something similar to this only i started with jest the LED base using a old blank DVD holder and wiring in some LEDs and a switch

[960772]

cool stuff man.