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You are here: Home / Tutorials / Dana Maltby / Double Wheel

Double Wheel

In this DIY Light Painting Tool Tutorial you will learn how to wire and operate a light wheel with 2 different DIY lights. One is a simple LED light string and the other is a cold cathode. You can learn how to wire the Cold Cathode in the Cold Cathode Tutorial HERE. Created and presented by light painting artist Dana Maltby, a.k.a. TCB, a.k.a. Twin Cities Brightest….enjoy.

What You Will Need

The Kids Bike Wheel (Normal Bike wheels are too Big)
Battery Operated Holiday Strand Lights
Cold Cathode Light
Inverter Box (comes with cathode)
Positive and Negative Plug (goes into the inverter box)
Battery Holder, 12V’s for the cathode, 8 AA or one 9volt and 2 AA
Connector for Battery holder
Switch
Lots of Tape

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Hey Pretty Lady

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Sorry

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Cat rings

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Items

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Prep

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Mounted

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Painted

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool
Power UP

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Put the switches next to each other on the wheel

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Cathode

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Completed

Bike Parts for DIY Light Painting Tool

Done!

Light Painting by TCB with Bike Wheel

Trial

Light Painting by TCB with Bike Wheel

Geocentric Model

Light Painting by TCB with Bike Wheel

Epicycle Cosmologies

See more of Dana’s Light Painting work at TwinCitiesBrightest.com and www.flickr.com/photos/twincitiesbrightest/

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