If you are a Batman fan, you must felt the urge to see an interesting flashing beacon light over your sky. Apart from the fantasy, beacons do turn up as a necessity for homes in the times of power cut offs, camping or decorative lighting. Detailing with how to make a beacon on your own is this post by Buju where he converts a conventional flashlight into a beacon. Attaching super bright LEDs to the torch does this conversion task.
While this project is quite simple and requires a little expertise on electronics, it holds up a prime value displaying the versatility of something as simple as a flashlight. This project details with the multitasking one can do from a single object itself.
When attached properly to a vehicle, the beacon can serve a well night time indicator. The blog also details that how power is one of the least considerations for this beacon.
The beacon set up works at 3-3.6V and the one mentioned in the blog ran for more than 6 days on its first run. Certainly, quite useful gadget has been devised here. Constructing out something so simply and making it work for longer hours is definitely quite an interesting thing to know and hence, this blog will make some more DIY machining in your garage.
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