Make It Glow: LED Projects for the Whole Family

Was a good read though a little short,but I knew that when I bought it. Learned some neat stuff. If you are interested in led lights . Its a good read. You wont learn everything but it will peek your curiosity. I be leave it was worth the price and the read.

Good book to do LED lighting projects

Gave as gift. The children had a good time making things!!

Projects are pretty lackluster and the book doesn’t teach you very much.

Gonna makes storm/thunder cloud. Some neat ideas

As a former home schooling parent (my kids are grown now, but will always be life-long learners!), this is just the kind of book I love. Hands-on learning is the best way for retaining information. There's nothing better to make science fun that combining it with art & crafting!Since my husband has been working on lighting up his LEGO city, we already have most of the pieces for the 20+ projects in this book, but you can easily find all of them right here on Amazon, or a local electronics store, and the components are very reasonably priced. I was thrilled to be able to receive this book because I'm a crafter and I've been meaning to make greeting cards that light up. It's also a great way for us to spend time working on the projects with my niece and nephew.The projects are appealing to three levels of experience, so there's something for all ages. And will be useful for years if your kids are smaller.I love that each of the 4 chapters in this book focus on a 'purpose', thus, helping kids to think about future career paths for the skills they will be acquiring. Chapter 1) Glowies and Throwies - light things up, including a glow-dart game. Chapter 2) Paper Circuits - folding & taping simple circuits (exactly what I need for cardmaking!) Chapter 3) Soft Circuitry and Wearables - Clothing and lighting? How fun is that?! Chapter 4) Twist, Solder, Tape & Hack - Advancing your skills by bringing it all together.You could probably do some of these projects with smaller kids, but I'd recommend it for an advanced eight year old or average ten year old and up.You can find the circuit stickers here on Amazon. Just search for "Chibitronics" or 'Circuit Stickers". They're a little on the expensive side, but I imagine that's because there is really nothing else like it out there. SeedStudio seems to have some, but similarly priced. This is the only reason the book got 4 and not 5 stars from me - the projects using the circuit stickers were designed by the founder of Chibitronics. I feel like it's a bit of a sales push.What I love about this book it that it's appealing equally to boys and girls. It's not demeaning to girls by being dumbed down, and the projects are interesting to anyone.

The media could not be loaded.  This is a great book for getting new crafty ideas that glow. You have to have batteries (2032 disk batteries) and LED's on hand, and in some cases some other special items, copper foil for one. Since I also do stained glass I had copper foil available... you can get it at stained glass shops and online. Other projects you can improvise on parts.Projects are fun and all center around the effect of the LED's. They go from easy to hard. I think most kids will be able to do them. My kindergartner watched me make a circuit with the foil and he was able to duplicate what I did and make his LED work too, but I think this book is geared to kids a bit older.Some of the projects feel a little repetitive in the easy section, you can make a ghost with glowing eyes, or a monster with glowing eyes, or a bug with glowing eyes.... you get the picture, but the LED part is great fun for kids and takes crafting to a whole other level. You don't have to have the exact parts for some of the projects, and this book leaves some room for improvisation.My older son was inspired by the book to do a constellation project with LED's for 4H, where he'll wire up the back of a foam board with the batteries and the LED's will pop through the front showing the big dipper, then he will write up a little fact sheet about each star and the constellation.

Fun book for the entire family. Does a great job of teaching the basics of LEDs and how to light them up and use them. The projects are all actually very simple and easy to do. A lot of fun for all skill levels. I would have liked to see some more advanced projects (like putting LEDs into paintings or working with furniture etc.) but you can take the knowledge you learn in this book and apply it to more advanced projects. We love LEDs in our home. From night lights to accent lighting and everything in between we have a ton of LED lights in our home. My kids are having a blast with the ideas in this book and I definitely recommend it to anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of DYI LED projects.

I think it depends what you were looking for from this book. If you were looking for a wide variety of lighting projects giving you both design inspiration as well as some interesting electrical circuits (like me) you will be disappointed. If you're ok with the same re-hashed led taped to a button cell with some variations in design but basically the same thing over and over then jump right in. The cover project was the most interesting of all but the rest was pretty standard and nothing above what you get on many maker sites.