LED Throwies

LED Throwies are another tool for the urban artist to alter their surroundings. They are easy to build and comparatively cheap. A throwie consisting of a LED, a CR2032 3V Lithium battery, a small disc magnet and a piece of duct tape costs around 35 euro cent (when bought in large amounts, f.e. 200 pieces). Although one throwie is cheap, you will need at least fifty (better hundred) throwies to do something impressive. So it’s a good idea to do LED installments with more people and share the costs.

As with every tool you can do a lot of different things with LED throwies. Try to be creative. Involve your friends. Even better, involve people you don’t know like those passing by your installation. The light of the throwies attract people. Try to use that for the actions you’re doing.

More instructions how to build a LED Throwie can be found here:
Grafitti Research Lab – the inventors of the LED Throwie

Grafitti Research Lab Germany
Instructions to build a LED Throwie

Here’s a simple LED Throwie building video:

A good place to buy throwies if you are located in germany is here:
oz hobbies

With throwies you can also do more complex stuff like the “LED Floaties” and the “Nightwriter”, Check instructions for these things here:
Nightwriter
Building LED Floaties

Because batteries are used with the LED throwies which contain toxic heavy metals, you should remove and dispose them when the Throwies are dead and gone. Here’s a instructable for a tool to help you with that:
LED Throwie Removal Unit

A short presentation about LED Throwies, I did on workshops in 2011: