For example, instead of throwing away the Carrot Carotene Calming Water Pad<\/a> container after the water pads ran out, I used it to create my nightlight. <\/p>\n Since it is translucent, this container can help dim the lights coming from the naked 5V Warm white LED light strip<\/a>.<\/p>\n Given that, let us take a look at how I made use of the items that I already have to create a USB powered LED nightlight.<\/p>\n With some level of variations, you should be able to make your own USB powered LED nightlight too.<\/p>\n The following is a list of parts and tools that I had used in making my own USB powered LED nightlight.<\/p>\n In order to make this post short and simple, I had omitted some details on:<\/p>\n In case you need more details on certain part of this post, feel free to reference the above posts.<\/p>\n Once I had gathered the parts and equipments, I proceeded to make my own USB powered LED nightlight.<\/p>\n First, I washed the Carrot Carotene Calming Water Pad container.<\/p>\n After wiping the container dry, I peeled away the label.<\/p>\n Next up is some work on the lid of the container. I used my drill<\/a> to drill a hole on the lid of the container for the 2 conductor wire to run through. If you don't have a drill and your lid is made of plastic, then you can try to use the soldering iron to create a hole for the cable. <\/p>\n Once I had prepared the container and lid, I proceeded with the soldering of one end of the wire to the 5V Warm white LED light strip.<\/p>\n After that, I pushed one end of the cable through the hole of the lid.<\/p>\n Once the cable is through the hole that, I cut out a good portion of the 5V warm white LED for the lighting and soldered it to the wires on the cable.<\/p>\n Right after that, I used a glue gun<\/a> to apply some glue to hold the wire to the lid.<\/p>\n I also added an inline cord switch onto the cable of my USB powered LED nightlight<\/a> to make it convenient for me to turn on my nightlight. <\/p>\n If your power socket is reachable at your convenience, you may skip this step.<\/p>\n After attaching the inline cord switch to my cable, I completed the circuitry by soldering a USB 2.0 type A pin plug to the other end of the cable.<\/p>\n Once I am done with that, I covered up the USB type A male pin plug with the other side of the plastic cover.<\/p>\n Finally, I fastened the lid to the container to complete the project.<\/p>\n Given that, this is how my nightlight looks like when I switched it on.<\/p>\n If you wish to avoid tripping in a very dark room while not affecting sleep quality, then you can use a nightlight to succinctly lit up a portion of your room. <\/p>\n While there are many nightlight variations<\/a> out there, it can be a meaningful exercise to try to create your own out of items that you already own or have in the house.<\/p>\n For example, instead of throwing away the Carrot Carotene Calming Water Pad<\/a> container after the water pads ran out, I used it to create my nightlight. <\/p>\nParts and tools<\/h2>\n
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Previous references<\/h2>\n
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Steps that I took to create my own USB powered LED nightlight<\/h2>\n
1. Prepare the translucent container to hold the 5V Warm white LED light strip<\/h3>\n
![\"Empty](\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Empty-Carrot-Carotene-Calming-Water-Pad-container.jpeg\")
<\/a> <\/p>\n![\"Empty](\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Empty-Carrot-Carotene-Calming-Water-Pad-container-without-lid-and-label-with-LED-light-strip-inside.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n![\"Carrot](\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carrot-Carotene-Calming-Water-Pad-container-lid-with-a-hole-in-the-middle.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n2. Solder one end of the wire to the 5V Warm white LED light strip<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n![\"5V](\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5V-Warm-white-LED-light-strip-soldered-onto-2-cable-wire-and-attached-to-the-Carrot-Carotene-Calming-Water-Pad-container-lid.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n3. Add an inline cord switch onto the cable of my USB powered LED nightlight<\/h3>\n
![\"white](\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/white-inline-cord-switch-on-white-cable.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n4. Solder the other end of the cable to USB 2.0 type A pin plug<\/h3>\n
![\"cable](\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cable-soldered-to-USB-type-A-male-pin-plug.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n![\"USB](\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/USB-type-A-pin-plug-covered-up.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n5. Fasten the lid to the container<\/h3>\n
![\"USB](\"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/USB-powered-LED-nightlight-with-empty-Carrot-Carotene-Calming-Water-Pad-container-as-the-casing.jpeg\")
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