Do-it-yourself LED sakura tree. DIY glowing trees

Glow in the dark bushes and trees are a new fashion trend in lighting technology. Such lamps not only fulfill their main function - they illuminate the streets in dark time days, but also decorate the city, emphasizing the features of the general atmosphere and setting the necessary accents.

Luminous trees for the street - "useful" splendor

LED trees can be installed almost everywhere, but most often such unusual lamps flaunt at the entrance to a cafe, shopping center, restaurant, cinema, boutique, etc. So they become the very attractive highlight that lures visitors to these cultural places.

Luminous shrubs and trees are very similar to real ones, they completely imitate the shape of their prototype plant. The metal branches of the LED miracle are covered with artificial bark, life-sized plastic or silicone leaves and flowers are attached to them. Small single-color or colored LEDs crown the whole structure.

Such ornamental trees they can work from the network, but more often they are equipped with an autonomous power supply, which somewhat increases the cost of the design.

You can, of course, just decorate an ordinary tree with an LED garland (for example, you can use it), but the effect will not be good enough. What are the benefits of using LED trees?

In the photo - luminous trees against the backdrop of a winter landscape:

Advantages:

• durability, these lighting serve at least five years;
• Artificial trees do not require maintenance, which is so necessary for real ones;
• A small amount of electricity consumed, even to illuminate the largest giants, a maximum of 700 W of energy is required;
• Easy to install, here you can easily do without the help of specialists;
• Impact resistant design low temperatures, high humidity and dust;
• If one or more LEDs burn out, the rest of the lamp continues to burn, while the LEDs are easily replaced with new ones;
• Properly selected bushes and trees can favorably emphasize the design of the landscape, become part of the overall decor. Of course, you can just use the usual Street lights for giving. you can see the options with a photo.

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Types and cost

We said that such trees need to be correctly selected, therefore, the conclusion suggests itself that there are a huge number of their species. LED trees can be various colors and shape, their size ranges from 0.8 m to 5 m. They are often installed as Christmas decorations.

palm trees

These exotic trees are usually made at least 2 meters high and can be painted in any color. More simple models are made in such a way that the trunk smoothly passes into sprawling branches and its structure and color is identical to the crown. For more expensive palms, the texture and color of the pillar is close to natural wood, and the leaves completely repeat the shape of the real ones. Among themselves, such lamps can also differ in the number of branches, the thickness of the trunk, the presence or absence of artificial nuts or fruits. Palm trees are most popular in sanatoriums, boarding houses, hotels and other recreational areas, because they successfully create an atmosphere of sultry fun and freshness of the sea breeze. The average price of luminous palm trees is 50-160 thousand rubles.

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Willow

Weeping willow, glowing in the dark, gives lovers the opportunity to enjoy a date under a spreading tree at any time of the day, without taking their eyes off each other. This wonderful lantern is able to give a park or square an extraordinary romantic atmosphere, illuminating long alleys and cozy benches. Here, flexible long branches are attached to the massive trunk, dotted with small leaves-plafonds, glowing white or any other color of the rainbow. Prices for willows range from 16,000 to 50,000 rubles.

Fruit trees

For spring to bloom 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, it is enough to install street LED lights in the garden, in the country house or just somewhere on the street. fruit trees. Peaches, apple trees, cherries, apricots, pears will delight those around them with their lush bloom shades of lilac, white or pink. On such trees, flowers and fruits are made in full size and look like inflorescences and fruits of real plants, like twin brothers. The cost of such lamps depends on the selected tree, its size and number of branches. This is 12-80 thousand rubles.

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Maple

Stars glowing in the dark can be found not only in the sky, but also on the LED maple that illuminates the square or park. Five-pointed silicone or plastic leaves different sizes on mighty branches - a good solution for decorating public place, and the paths are visible, and the view is pleasant. The price range of maples is 15-50 thousand rubles.

Sakura

This tree can be placed in a special category, since it is sakura that is especially popular. Such trees are especially beautiful, they are able to turn a simple everyday environment into a fairy-tale kingdom. The branches of these trees are covered either with special high-strength plastic or aluminum alloy, and designed in such a way that they are very reminiscent of the real ones.
The lantern is strewn with large silicone flowers and leaves, while their density and shape seem to be copied from real Japanese sakura. Although such trees are made in small sizes, they give no less light than tall palm trees and branchy willows. The color scheme of the cherry blossom LEDs is very soft and delicate in gold, white, pink and purple tones. Such oriental beauties cost from 5 to 80 thousand rubles. Fairly high prices for luminous trees are largely due to the price of LED lamp street lighting(more details) that are used in their manufacture.

In the photo - luminous sakura:

How to make a glowing tree for the street with your own hands

1. draw detailed diagram. On a sheet of paper, draw a sketch of the future tree on a scale, marking its height, the length of the branches, the number of luminous elements on each of them, and other necessary dimensions with numbers.
2. We measure the stem. Cut off a part of the required height from a metal-plastic plumbing or any other pipe - this will be a tree trunk.
3. We make a frame. Cut from wire required amount medium branches and many smaller branches. Bend them into an "L" shape so they can be easily taped to the base. With black tape or Brown fasten small branches to medium ones, then attach the latter to the trunk with the same adhesive material.
4. Let's move on to LEDs. Using a soldering iron, solder the resistors to the LED. Keep in mind that the latter have two legs - one is longer, the other is shorter. Make sure that all LEDs are soldered either only to the extended, or only to the shortened contacts of the resistor. To protect against moisture good decision will become .
5. Isolate the LEDs. Take an insulating tube, the color of which matches the shade of the electrical tape, and the diameter is sufficient for the LED to easily fit inside it. Cut the tube, taking into account that the soldering point and the resistor itself should be hidden from the observer, but at the same time it is necessary to leave a place for connecting to the power wire. Put the tubes on the LED bulbs and lightly heat with a lighter so that the insulation completely wraps around the parts.
6. Attach LEDs. Attach each of the LEDs on small branches to the wires, respectively, of polarity and wrap with insulating tape. Now connect the wiring from small branches to the wires of medium ones, one wire per branch. We connect the bundle of wires received again so that all the pluses are together, and the minuses, respectively, are connected exclusively to each other. The resulting bundles can be immediately soldered to the main wire and run along the trunk, or you can pre-thread the wires from each branch into the holes pre-drilled in the pipe, connect them together and solder to the main wire so that it is subsequently located inside the pipe. Do not forget to observe the polarity, and then insulate all bare conductors. It will help to ensure uninterrupted operation in any weather conditions.
7. Decorate branches. With the help of leaves and flowers cut out of plastic, decorate the resulting tree, carefully wrap all the branches with electrical tape, as close as possible appearance tree-lamp to natural.
8. We install. The basis for the resulting tree is a barrel, a large pot, a container hidden in the ground, etc. Install your luminous structure in it and connect it to a power source.

Such a tree will delight you especially, like everything that is done with your own hands. You can do a lot of useful things for your site, such as .

The video shows how to make a small glowing spruce. By the same principle, you can make any other tree:

LED Tree, made with your own hands - a great opportunity to create a fabulous forest yourself, guided only by your own imagination and imagination. At the same time, it also saves money. But if you are not very “friends” with a soldering iron or do not have free time, the best way out is to purchase a ready-made representative of the LED flora.

You are absolutely in vain to remove a luminous garland after the winter holidays. There is a mass interesting ways decorating her home interior.

1. Lay a garland around the mirror office of some interesting shape.

2. Wrap paper lanterns with a garland around the branch and hang over the bed.

3. Create a drop down light by decorating the garland with large bulbs.

4. Create an original tree from a garland.

Draw a contour on the wall, drive in carnations around the perimeter and wrap a luminous garland around them. Easy peasy!

5. Attach photos to the glowing garland with clothespins.

6. Create your own canvas with a pattern of glowing lights.

7. Thread the garland into flower baskets or put it right there.

8. Fill wine bottles with lights to effectively illuminate them from the inside.

9. Create an angel wreath from paper napkins.

Using wire cutters, form a round holder for snowflakes and wrap it with an electric garland with small bulbs. Then glue decorative snowflakes onto the holder.

10. Or use napkins to make a wedding wreath.

Just make small holes in the napkins and thread the lights through them.

11. Cover disposable cardboard cups with fancy paper, this will help create interesting light shades with the help of an LED string.

12. Crochet a glowing rug with a rope and a garland.

13. Decorate your Christmas garland with tulle bows.

14. To create a festive mood, decorate the garland with old decorations.

15. Create colorful twine balls and decorate them with a glowing garland.

16. Make flaming snowflakes out of store-bought flower holders.

17. Tie rope with a garland for a nautical room decor.

18. Create a network of glowing garlands in the bedroom.

19. Hang air clouds with hanging luminous garland.

Pictured is a 2D version of the cloud.

20. You can also use egg cartons to create the effect of flowers.

21. Write a letter-by-letter message on pendant lights.

Make letters by punching holes in the paper.

22. Create a romantic headboard.

Bring down the simple wooden frame and add traverses. Drill small holes and insert sockets at the bottom of each niche. Paint the frame and screw it to the wall. Fill each niche with a garland and connect it to the outlets. Cut transparent panels from polycarbonate sheets and attach them to the frame with fasteners.

23. Use glitter wrapping paper to create giant glowing candies.

Required materials and tools:

• disposable Plastic container with lid;
• electric garland;
• scissors;
• wire or pipe cleaners;
• wire cutters;
• multi-colored wrapping paper;
• Scotch.

Preparation method:

1. Cut off a piece of wrapping paper measuring 45x45 cm from the roll.
2. Wrap the garland with wrapping paper. Remember to leave both ends of the garland outside in order to connect it to the network and connect the element with other candies.
3. Put the wrapped garland in a plastic container and close it. Wrap the container in wrapping paper and secure with tape.
4. Use brushes or wire to shape the garland container into a candy shape.
5. Decorate the entire garland in this way, leaving free space between the links (20-40 cm).
6. Connect the finished bunch of candies to the network.

24. Insert flashlights into tiny canning jars.

Take special covers with a hole for the garland. Close each jar with a lid and insert a light bulb from the garland into it.

25. Insert an LED string into an old toy.

You will need:

• old toy (made of cotton fabric);
• PVA glue;
• tassel;
• scissors;
• threads;
• light garland.

Preparation method:

26. Write a light message.

27. Arrange the luminous garland in waves.

28. Cut out black cat shapes to make this cute garland.

29. Wrap the garland around the wire wreath.

Probably one of the most simple options creating homemade wreaths.

30. Light up the canopy over the bed with a garland.

31. Cut the paper into strips to make the same fringed lanterns.

32. Use foil from a cupcake pan to decorate your garland.

This is a great idea for any party.

33. Make sparkling decorations with mirrors and lights.

Take:

• brushed aluminum bar;
• hooks for hanging;
• garland with mirror pendants;
• electric garland.

Instruction:

1. Attach the bar to the wall with two hooks.
2. Hang a mirror garland on the rod. To enhance the visual effect, you can cut some of the threads with pendants so that the finished curtain is of different lengths.
3. Behind the pendants, stretch a light garland and plug it into an outlet.

34. Use twigs to create a rustic chandelier.

This idea can easily be implemented with a luminous garland.

Take:

• dry branches;
• hemp twine;
• stain (optional to darken the color of the wood);
• wood color paint;
• lampholders with a removable cardboard cover for painting;
• plastic ties;
• glue gun;
• electrical cable black and white color;
• black electrical wire with fork;
• branch clamps "nuts".

Instruction:

35. Make a garland of geometric lanterns.

You can make your own lanterns from black wire or natural straw.

Take:

This creation was inspired by watching the movie Avatar. Remember the fluorescent trees that filled the night with colorful light, an indescribable beauty.

Surely you have seen beaded trees, a man-made creation of an analogue of natural beauty, less affected by time. The advantage of such trees in more " rapid growth”and the ability to set a unique shape, accurately recreating a mental image.

Not so long ago, “eternal flashlights” appeared on the market, in particular, devices with LEDs and solar panels.

We combine the above, and coupled with diligence, we can get a glowing beaded bonsai that looks like this:

In the dark,

at night.

Manufacturing technology

The collection of energy for recharging can be done in one of two ways:
1) Placement of photodiodes in the branches of a tree;
2) Installation of one solar cell next to the tree.

Tree creation.

It all depends on your imagination, skill and diligence. For the above example, it took to purchase about 60 meters copper wire with a diameter of 0.3 mm and 2160 beads with a diameter of 3 mm. Beads can be any, but in my desire to recreate the effect of leaves, I used transparent green, 80 grams.

The very first stage, we make branches with leaves.

Next, you need to create a strong wire frame with a diameter of about 2 mm, this will be a tree trunk. When placing the LEDs on the branches, leave a margin of length, as shown in the photo. So it will be more convenient for further assembly. You also need a margin at the roots to assemble the circuit.

Mounting the LED on the branch frame:

If you want to use the placement of photodiodes on the branches, then the design will look like this:

I used branches with photo and LEDs and five branches of leaves. To create a natural effect, we place dark photodiodes in the center, and the LED at the beginning of the points with leaves, this will allow them to illuminate the entire branch.

One finished branch:

Wood half finished

Same thing, in the dark:

Now you need to hide the electronic filling, there are many options: solder the roots, thread through the holes, press down, etc. In this case, holes were made in the bottom of the pot, roots were passed through them, and after placing the electronics, the container was filled with decorative stones.

Pot of pebbles:

The electronic side of the issue
BPW34 photodiodes were used, if you decide to use this direction of providing energy, then you need to use about 10 pieces together to ensure that the lithium-ion battery is charged. We place them in the branches and bring the wires to the roots.
Due to the location "in the foliage" photodiodes cannot work at full power due to the light flux reduced by the leaves.

Consider another solution to the problem of energy supply. Key chains with solar batteries have been sold in stores for a long time, their price is not high.

LED keychain flashlight with solar battery:

At the first stages of the calculation, it was assumed to use a capacitor as the main battery. But when I used solar cell From the key fob, I felt sorry for leaving the remaining parts of the key fob out of work, including a 3.7V and 40 mAh lithium-ion battery. The use of these details made it easier to recreate the circuit.

Scheme:

If you use BPW34 photodiodes, then you need to use blocks of 10 photodiodes connected in series, assembled in parallel.

The solar array is connected via diode D1 and resistor R9, which allows transistor Q1 to act as a dimmer for the LEDs based on light information from the solar cell. Thus, the backlight turns on only in the dark and does not take power during the day, allowing the battery to charge. It remains only to assemble the LEDs and the resistors connected to them in series.

When hiding electronics with stones, leave the solar cell uncovered, otherwise it will not work.

The list of materials required to create:
2160 beads (about 80 g)
60 m of copper wire with a diameter of 0.3 mm
1 bonsai pot
8 super bright green LEDs 3mm 8000mcd
1 the solar panel(or 10 BPW34)
1 Li-ion battery 3.7V 40mAh
2 m copper wire with a diameter of about 2 mm
8 resistors 1 kΩ
1 resistor 1MΩ
1 diode 1N4148
1 transistor BC327

P.S.:
Such luminous trees will be a great decoration for your windows and interior, bringing a little magic into your life.

Natalia Korpyleva

In the previous entry, you drew attention to the design of the hall to New Year holidays in our kindergarten.

Our friendly team discussed the design in advance and all groups began to prepare for the planned curtain of snow-white snowflakes, 100 snowflakes per group. Soon they were ready.

Senior and middle groups took over the design miraculous snowflake curtain.

We also planned to make two carved multifunctional tree to decorate the hall backlit Christmas garlands and cutout patterns.

I took care of this business. For we need to make wood:floor insulation(the thicker the better, as it keeps its shape well, felt-tip pen or a blue marker, a stationery knife or scissors, a bucket or any pot, a piece of thick plastic pipe 1.5 meters, colored tape. transparent tape, double-sided tape, some cement and water, white needle and thread, ruler, New Year's Garland, wonderful mood and fantasy.

We prepare the trunk in advance tree: wrap the pipe with colored tape, fill the pipe in a bucket with cement diluted in water and leave it to harden for a day.

We draw on insulation for the crown of the future tree by attaching the stem.

Then cut out the second part.

Here's what happened.

We draw beautiful patterns marker.

Carefully cut out the patterns with a clerical knife.

Fold and trace the patterns with a marker on the other side.

The cut out parts can also be used to decorate the group.

I cut patterns.

Here's what happened.

We cut out such a detail.

We sew like this.

Attach pieces of double sided tape.

On double-sided tape we glue the part that we will put on the trunk tree. And fix it with transparent tape garland on one side of the crown.

We fix it on adhesive tape and the other half of the crown, sew the two sides on the sides and put it on the trunk.

We decorate the bucket beautifully and that's how carved the tree ended up.

Two carved tree fit perfectly into the interior and complemented new year decoration hall for the holiday.

During the holiday.

I have tree dressed as night.

You probably already noticed that at the very beginning of this post I wrote that tree is a multifunctional decoration for the holidays. Its versatility lies in the fact that the crown tree is removed,turned inside out and one side of the crown will be painted in Orange color(to use tree during the autumn holidays, and the other side will be painted green (for use on spring and summer holidays).This is we got a wonderful tree!

Thank you for your attention! I will be very glad if my idea and mine master- The class will be useful to you in your work. Happy New Year to all Maam residents! I wish you creative success!

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You can add unusual lighting to your home or festively decorate a hall for a celebration with the help of LED trees and bushes. Such unusual decoration will be a worthy replacement for the usual artificial flowers and other decorations. Moreover, it will become additional source lighting and will look good both in the daytime and in the evening.

LED trees will delight everyone with their radiance and transform the space. These trees can be used both outdoors and indoors. These trees are often used in landscape designs as decoration and additional lighting.

Of course, the LED tree, designed by professional designers and mass-produced in the factory, looks very different. And you can install it on the day of purchase. But after all, this time the main thing for us is to realize our creative impulse and make such a lamp with our own hands.

Making an LED Tree

This article is intended for those who are thinking about testing themselves and devoting a few weeks to the mystery of scientific and technical creativity. Creating an LED sakura tree is a difficult process that involves working through every detail. The luminous crown of a tree is created from a set of LED petals, which are securely attached to the wires of the tree, and the frame is made of metal.

The whole process of creating a luminous tree with your own hands can be divided into stages:

• We draw a diagram. We make a sketch of the future tree on a piece of paper and designate its height, the number of branches, diodes.
• We make a stem. To create it, you can use a metal-plastic plumbing or other pipe. We measure and cut the required length.
• We create a framework. From the wire we cut the required number of branches of different sizes. We bend them with the letter "G" to make it more convenient to attach them to the trunk. We fasten small branches to large ones with black or brown electrical tape, and then tightly fasten the resulting branches to the trunk with adhesive material.
• Let's take LEDs. At this point, we will need a soldering iron to solder the resistors to the LED. Make sure that all diodes are soldered only to the long one, or only to the short stem resistor.
• Insulation. Coinciding in color with electrical tape, the insulating tube must have a diameter sufficient for the passage of the diode. This tube must be cut in such a way that the soldering point and the resistor itself are hidden from the audience, but at the same time leave a place for connecting to the power wire. Put the tubes on the diode bulbs and heat with a lighter so that the insulation braids the parts.
• Mounting LEDs. Tape each LED on small twigs to wires of the appropriate polarity and wrap with electrical tape. Wiring from small branches must be connected to the wiring of large ones (one wire per branch). As a result, the resulting bundle of wires should be divided into plus and minus. Ready bundles of wires can be immediately put along the trunk and soldered to the main wire.
• Branch decoration. You can decorate the branches with leaves and flowers cut out of plastic. All branches of the tree must be wrapped with electrical tape, bringing its appearance closer to natural.
• Installation. For the base for the LED tree, you can use a large pot or other container. After choosing the base and installing the tree, it can be connected to a power source.

The main advantage of such trees is the economical consumption of electricity. In addition, this design has a long service life and is quite easy to install, and small diode bulbs are not afraid of moisture and direct sunlight.