How-to: Make Angel Eyes (Halo's)

[T-MAN-R6]

Aluminium tape; it looks like duct tape. Its sturdy but flexible enough to manipulate. And it looks like aluminum. If you can't find that type of tape, you can use a real thin piece of sheet metal and zip ties to hold the LED's in place. I will post a pic of the tape either today or tomorrow.

[NemesisR6]

Your bike kind of looks like "Johhny-5" when he gets angry........

[clique]

i think i have everything down except tying the eyes to the metal rings. i am not sure how you hold the angel eyes to the rings...do you just tie it up to the metal rings and then tighten the metal rings or am i getting this wrong? is there any illustration by any chance...? section three is what i am referring to. and yeah...this is an awesome write up.
oh and T-Man_R6...did you do that high beam low beam conversion too?

[aph]

Originally Posted by NemesisR6

Your bike kind of looks like "Johhny-5" when he gets angry........

No DISASSEMBLE!!

I want the red eyes and then a loud speaker that comes on when I turn the eyes on and plays the music from the movie when Johnny-5 gets mad and starts blasting things. (or was the when the other robots started blasting things..ah its been too long since I have seen the movie)

[T-MAN-R6]

clique,

Yes. Sorry no pics. I will see if I can get a good pic with the lens cover on. I really don't want to take it all back apart. But if I have too I will.

I will see if I can explain how to do that part a little better.

Loosen the screws on the metal rings; 2.use 3 different pieces of wire for each ring, slide the wire under the ring; 3. make sure the three different pieces of wire (folded in half for better strength) are by the screws (putting the wire by the screws will help conceal the wire) and are even on each end; 4. tighten the screws to the metal rings, not too tight or you will cut the wire; 5. now place the Angel Eyes over the metal rings and tighten (twist) the wire around the Angel Eyes; 6. any extra length of wire, cut (but don't cut too close) and lay/bend the small amount of excess toward the back of the Angel Eyes/metal rings.

that should do it! I will try and get some up-close pics tomorrow. Right now its 10:00 pm here in Germany.

When you complete your Angel Eyes I/We would like to see pics! What color LED's did you use?

Good Luck!!
Thomas

I didn't really think about "Short Circuit" Johnny-5! Your right, thats good!

[saefirebird]

Great writeup.....

I might suggest using high temperature acrylic rods though.

[clique]

T-Man_R6 dude....thanks man...i think i got it now. i was only confused because i didn't see the wire and was wondering how it was holding the eyes. but it's ok...you dont' have to take the lens apart again...i think i will end up using either red or blue LEDs. i had ordered about 100 leds a month or so back for reasons i can't remember...and dont' remember the color either...but i think they're red. but yeah i'll post some pics when i'm done. thanks again dude.

[tuscanijon]

if you don't use 3.6v 20ma LEDs does it matter?

[aph]

Originally Posted by tuscanijon

if you don't use 3.6v 20ma LEDs does it matter?

It doesn't matter what LED you use as long as you have the proper resistor.

[philyork]

Yeah I left my R6 by the lake yesterday, and I got red angel eyes on my bike... Look what it did while I was gone! We got it all on tape!

http://www.johnny-five.com/wm/firepower.asx