Arc Reactor: Part 1

I have come to deliver this unto mine people, that the Arc Reactor is complete!

Required supplies:
2 LED flashlights (these are really cheap at the dollar store)
A circuit board ($4 at RadioShack, though you can definitely get them cheaper at a dedicated electronics store)
Soldering iron, solder, and flux (I got a mixed solder/flux)
Wires
Time
Expert solderer (my physics teacher)

Instructions:
1. Remove LEDs from flashlights by unscrewing the circle circuit board out of lamps, and using a soldering iron to melt away the solder on the LEDs. If you hold the board upside down, then the LEDs just fall off.

2. Solder the LEDs onto the new circuit board. If I remember correctly, we wired them parallel. I will write about the wiring and circuit in part 2.

3. Use the (cannibalized) flashlight's battery pack to test connections

4. Wrap on a circular piece of plastic with some of the leftover wire. I painted a pin holder black to use as the center piece of the reactor.

5. Wear the Reactor proudly!

Note: I cannot give assistance on how to wear the reactor. My recommendation is to acquire some strips of velcro and use those. I, through trial and error, wound up using my teacher's alligator pin wires as overalls to hang the reactor on my neck. We pinned one wire to each side of the reactor then we taped the other end of the wires together--voila! Velco is probably much easier...

21st Century Polymathy? 21 Polymathy...Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...A long time.

My two readers,

I'm sorry. I haven't touched this blog in almost a month--a month! Google Analytics tells me y'all have been periodically checking this blog over the last 3 weeks, but I've let you down each time. School has really taken its toll on my free time, and some personal issues have really hampered my efforts to keep up with my blog. However, I am happy to announce that I am commencing operations on Project Stark. 

Project Stark: EYES ONLY

Every year, during the week before my high school's Homecoming Dance, my school tries to rally everyone with school spirit by encouraging students to wear different spirit clothes on different days*. For example, this Thursday, the school says students should dress up as "nerds." This is what the student body usually dresses up as:

Since when did all nerds follow Steve Urkel's fashion wisdom?!?!?

No. Just no. I'm tired of this!

A real nerd doesn't look like some 1950s anachronism; nay, a real nerd looks like this:

Tell me that mustache isn't sexy

A real nerd is often a sexy beast who has rather fine taste--like NDT.

Ergo, I'm tired of seeing my classmates bring down an otherwise stellarly-fashionable group of people. That is why I plan on building a light-up Arc Reactor, attaching it to my chest, and dressing up as Tony Stark for nerd day. Most importantly, I'll blog my progress right here! Wish me luck.