We suggest you get a new one houseplant. Moreover, it does not require any maintenance at all, but it looks fabulous. It’s like something straight out of the screen, from the movie “Avatar.” Remember there were glowing mushrooms in the forest? So in the Mister Geek store there is such a miracle: Night Light Magic Mushrooms.

This is an LED lamp designed like a pot of plants and mushrooms. Or rather, you can decorate it yourself. “Plant” the plants however you like by placing them on artificial moss. Bend the mushrooms - they have flexible legs. It turns out very believable, as if this is all a real piece of forest. But the main magic happens later.

If the night light is plugged in, nothing will happen at first. But if you turn off the light, the mushrooms will glow. The two palest ones will shine evenly, and the pink one, with a wide cap, consistently changes color illumination. And just like that, it really is a fantastic sight. And an amazing gift that can be given, for example, to a woman on February 14th.

Technical Features of LED Magic Mushroom Lamp

The wire that needs to be connected to the network comes out directly from the ceramic pot, closer to its bottom. And just above is the light sensor. Accordingly, if you cover or seal it with something, the lamp will turn on immediately when connected to the outlet. You can check the performance of the night light this way: just cover the sensor with your finger, and the mushrooms should start to glow. Even if it's a bright sunny day. But in the dark they still look completely special.

Initially, you receive a pot of mushrooms, and artificial plants are included with it. They need to be stuck into the moss, you will have to use additional tools - a suitable sharp object. You can distribute the plants as you wish, creating the illusion of their natural growth. And among them are beautifully curved mushrooms on thin stalks.

For the lamp to work, it must be connected to the network. The night light has a flat American plug, but the kit includes an adapter. Insert the plug into it, and then calmly use any European socket.

But if you want to have real ones on the table, edible mushrooms, then you will be interested in the Mushroom Growing Kit Mushroom Box.

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Characteristics

• 2 monochromatic mushrooms, the third one changes color;
• works in the dark (there is a light sensor);
• power supply: 230 V mains, American flat socket, included adapter for a standard European socket;
• material: ceramics, plastic, silicone;
• color: white pot, green moss and plants, porcini and pink mushrooms;
• placement: desktop;
• size (L*W*H): 10*10*19 cm;
• weight: 400 g;
• packaging: cardboard box;
• package size (L*W*H): 12*12*15 cm;
• brand: Love Your Life.

A small piece of the amazing planet from the movie "Avatar" will fill the room with magic soft light. This distant and fabulous world is inhabited by unusual animals and fantastic plants.

A small part of the fascinating forest, emitting various shades, can settle down in your home, dear readers.

Japanese designer and original designer Yukio Takano created this unique collection of LED lanterns.

Each element is made so naturally that it can be mistaken for a mushroom family that has settled on a piece of wood. The kits are packaged in beautiful boxes and will delight science fiction lovers.

Probably, if you look hard enough, you can find a similar composition for sale. But the unique thing is that it is quite easy to make it yourself at home. Such a work will be especially expensive.

Let's look at the manufacturing process together with the Design Museum website.

We will need: wooden base, transparent and luminous polymer clay, wires, LEDs and fantasy.

We go in search of suitable driftwood that does not have significant cracks, rot or insects. To make sure there are no small living creatures, the piece of wood needs to be thoroughly washed under running water and then calcined in the oven for several hours at a temperature of 200 degrees.

To hide all the wiring, you need to hollow out the middle, but this is not always possible. Especially if it is a root fragment with many branches. Therefore, you can simply drill holes in the places where the mushrooms will be located, and then carefully bring the wires to the back side and secure them.

Mushroom caps and stems are made from a ceramic base. Pinch off a piece from each type and roll into thin sausages. Alternating them with each other, we collect them into a bundle and roll them again to compact them.

If you can’t immediately sculpt very thin flagella, then you can simplify this process a little: first, we put together two cylinders of the same color, roll them out, cut them crosswise into two or four parts, and roll them out again. We continue this way until we achieve the desired result.

The next stage is making the hats. We cut off a piece of the length we need from the bundle and carefully push the clay apart from the inside, forming walls that should be thinner at the edges. If you need a wide hat, then it is better to cut out the excess material.

For this process, you need to select several convenient devices and find an image of your chosen mushroom. This will make it easier to achieve maximum resemblance to the original.

To achieve a more natural look, we recommend slightly tinting some areas. The dry brush and paint technique is perfect for this. You can also pour a little sand or earth onto the surface of the finished hat. Place the products in the oven for 15 minutes at 275 degrees.

With the legs it’s a little easier: we roll out the clay thinly and wrap the wires in it, compacting it well and leaving a tail on top for attaching the LEDs. We pass the lower part into the prepared holes. We secure the lead-out wires and form slightly uneven columns.

Rechargeable batteries, batteries or solar panels can be used as batteries. They need to be hidden inside the base or on its back side. Add a little hot glue to each hat. Let it harden slightly. Then we press the resulting creation tightly against the leg with the LED.

That's it, ready! Although you can go further in the design, for example, cover the wood with a protective varnish or apply small spots of luminous paint on it. Imagine!

A short review of a night light in the form of several toadstools.
About six months ago, my child needed a night light. Previously, I made a homemade LED night light, but then it turned out to be just a rectangular block in a socket, but I wanted it to be not just a light bulb, even a multi-colored one, but something more interesting, so that the child would be at least a little interested.
I didn’t particularly like anything in our stores, so I decided to look at the Chinese ones.
The search was carried out using the code word “night light” and then filtered by price.
Of the various options that came up, I somehow liked this model and the night light in the shape of one large mushroom.
Since I had already seen a large mushroom in an offline store, and I didn’t really like its workmanship, I decided to try this particular night light. The store was selected based on the number of sales and customer reviews. The seller stated that the night light changes the color of the mushrooms and automatically adjusts the brightness of the night light. I was wondering if this was true at a price of just over 1ue.
I decided to give it a try, with the idea that if it didn’t work, it would be the basis for making a homemade night light.
An order was placed and a month later I received a package with a night light. An ordinary paper bag, inside of which this night light was wrapped in bubble wrap. There are no photographs preserved, and they are unlikely to be of interest to anyone.

The night light itself:

Rear view

The body of the night light is made of white glossy plastic, most likely ABS.
Case dimensions: width 45 mm, height 35 mm, thickness (without fork) 20 mm.
The quality of workmanship is not satisfactory.
The body is screwed together with 2 screws, on one of them there is a label-seal of the QCD output control.
At the bottom of the case there is a transparent window for the light sensor (more on how the sensor works below).

Bottom view

From the upper part of the base emerge three thin plastic stems with a diameter of 1.2 mm and a length of about 60 mm, on which a round leaf is placed on top. The leaves are also plastic, glossy on top, and the underside has a fabric-like texture. On one of the leaves, a flash is visible on the edge of the leaf, but it looks as if the leaf is withering a little, and in general it does not spoil the appearance of the night light. Traces of glue are visible at the junction of the stem and leaf, but if you don’t look closely, it doesn’t catch your eye. The leaf stems are rigid and do not bend.

Top view

There are also mushroom stems coming out of the top of the base. Apparently, a white heat-shrink tube was put on the wires with soldered LEDs. The stems of the mushrooms bend freely, so the mushrooms can be bent within certain limits at your discretion. The LEDs are covered with mushroom caps made of thin silicone. The hats are multi-colored (my copy has yellow, green and pink). The height of the mushrooms including the cap is 50-55 mm. The mushrooms are done quite neatly.

So, what's inside? Unscrewed 2 screws.
Inside one-sided PCB, the installation is quite neat, the board is not particularly filled with flux (or has been washed).
Expected capacitive power supply. The capacitor is 0.1 µF for a voltage of 400 V, therefore the night light consumes no more than 7 mA and 1.5 W. It was unexpected to see a full-fledged rectifier bridge; usually the Chinese are satisfied with 1-2 diodes. Photo below

Mushroom filling

Night light work
When I plugged it in for the first time, the night light did not turn on. It turned out that the room was too bright. When I covered the light sensor with my hand, the mushrooms started to glow.
The darker the room, the brighter the night light. During the day, the night light does not turn on. The light is soft, pleasant, enough to not get lost in the darkness of a 15m2 room. The two outermost mushrooms (yellow and green) glow constantly, and the central one (with a pink cap) smoothly changes color (red\green\blue and their combinations).

In the dark

The night light has been working properly for six months in 24/7 mode. The leaves and mushroom caps did not fade or turn yellow (during the day, the outlet where the night light is installed receives direct sunlight). The children of my friends liked it, I know that they ordered such night lights for themselves (not from this seller).

My child likes the night light.

To summarize, I can say that for such a ridiculous price it’s quite a decent night light.
To be honest, I expected a slightly worse performance.
Yes, the capacitor of the power supply raises some doubts; perhaps it is better not to leave the night light unattended.

And yes, if anyone decides to buy such a night light (from any seller), please note that there are similar night lights on Ali, but without changing the color of the glow of the central mushroom. You need to carefully read the product description and customer comments.
I hope that this review will be useful to someone

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Hello everyone, DIY lovers!
In this article we'll talk about an interesting lamp that will delight a child with its design, namely: the Magic Mushroom.

We will need:
- Cardboard;
- LED strip kit;
- Wood glue/PVA;
- Gravel for the aquarium (pink and yellow);
- Plants for the aquarium;
- Acrylic paint (white and red);
- Vata;
- 2.5 m of stranded wire;
- 1 m of single-core wire;
- Heat shrink;
- 5 textured pieces of paper towel;
- Hot glue gun;
- Scissors;
- Typesetting scalpel;
- Ruler;
- Pencil;
- Artistic brush;
- Wire cutters;
- Soldering iron and solder.

Stage 1. Templates and blanks.
First, the author prints and cuts out the templates, and then cuts them out on cardboard.

Next, I rounded the edges using a ruler.

And he did the same with other parts.

The template can be downloaded:

(downloads: 52)

Stage 2. Gluing parts into one shape.
To begin with, the author took two pieces of legs from the blanks and glued their lower parts from the inside. I waited until the glue dried, and then continued gluing little by little until I reached the sixth fragment (inclusive). He then set the first half aside and began gluing the second half together.

When both halves were ready, the author glued them together.

Later the author repeated the same thing for the hat.

Stage 3. Holes
First, the author printed out several templates and traced their holes on the mushroom cap, and cut them out with a scalpel.

Then I chose a place for the power cord on the mushroom stem and cut a hole for it.

Stage 4. Texture
The author traced the hat template on a paper towel and cut it out 12 times. Then I mixed wood glue with a small amount of water and applied a large amount of this “composition” to the hat, and then secured the cut out fragments with a paper towel.

Once all the pieces were in place, I waited half an hour and then applied a generous amount of glue over the towel.

Then the author repeated the same steps for the leg.

Later, the author applied glue to the inner surface of the leg and the outer cap. I made sure that the glue soaked through all the folds.

Afterwards, the author left the mushroom to dry overnight.

When the paint had dried, the author painted the outer surface of the cap red (2-3 times).

Then I cut out the previously taped holes.

I traced the frill on a paper towel, cut it out and attached it to the leg.

Stage 6. Backlight
First, the author secured the LED strip in the form of a spiral. I cut the strip with scissors at the nearest “cut point”.
Attention: Be careful when bending the strip to avoid damaging its conductors.

Then I cut the stranded wire into four pieces of 30-40 cm each and glued them together. I stripped and tinned the ends of the wires and soldered them to the LED strip. Then I applied hot melt glue to the joint. Marked negative and positive findings with a marker. After that, I applied hot glue to the LED strip for additional fixation on the cardboard.

Next, I glued the power socket of the LED strip controller to the leg from the inside. I cut 4 pieces of single-core wire, soldered them into the holes for the controller pins and insulated the soldering area. I cut out a small rectangular window for the controller's IR receiver and attached it to the inside of the case.

Let's pull the wires through the leg and glue it to the cap.

Stage 7. Base
Then I traced the base on cardboard and cut it out. I glued both parts together and laid the template on top of the glued blank. Using a scalpel, I traced the lines on the template and cut out grooves for the LED strip.

I attached LEDs around the base. I cut grooves wherever necessary. From the remaining stranded wire, I cut four more pieces of 10-15 cm each, stripping/tinning them, and soldered them to the end of the strip. I applied glue to the soldering area and attached the remaining part of the wire to the base. I noted the pinout of the wires.

I put heat shrink on the wires. I soldered the wires coming from the controller to the wires of the base tape. I connected it in an arbitrary way, but the power goes to power! The author wanted the lighting of the hat to be different from the lighting of the base. Slided the heat shrink over the joints and settled it.

I turned on the night light and made sure that the base illumination was working. I soldered the wires coming from the LED strip in the header to the LED strip of the base.

After everything worked as it should, the author glued the leg to the base.

Stage 8. Decoration
I glued the pebbles to the base one by one, as close to each other as possible. Completely sealed the surface and ends.

I trimmed the plants and pasted them over the mushroom. I glued more stones where they were attached to the base. I cut some plants into smaller pieces and glued them on as well.

Hi all! In today's article we will talk about how do unusual night light their hands. In general, the project is quite simple and, if desired, anyone can repeat this homemade.

Step 1: Materials and Tools

Materials:

• Cardboard;
• LED strip kit;
• Wood glue/PVA;
• Aquarium gravel (pink and yellow);
• Plants for aquarium;
• Acrylic paint (white and red);
• Cotton wool;
• 2.5 m stranded wire;
• 1 m single-core wire;
• Heat shrink;
• 5 texture paper towel pieces.

Tools:

• Hot glue gun;
• Scissors;
• Typesetting scalpel;
• Ruler;
• Pencil;
• Artistic brush;
• Stipper (insulation stripping device);
• Wire cutters;
• Soldering iron and solder.

Step 2: Templates and blanks

Print and cut out the templates, and then trace them on cardboard.

Slightly round the workpieces using a ruler.

Step 3: Glue the pieces together

To begin, take two pieces of the leg and glue their lower parts from the inside. We will have to hold the workpiece in our hands. Let's wait until the glue dries, and then we'll move up little by little. We continue gluing the pieces together until we reach the sixth fragment (inclusive). We put the first one aside and start gluing the second half.

When both halves are ready, glue them together.

We repeat the same for the hat.

Step 4: Holes

Let's print out several templates and trace their holes on the mushroom cap. Let's cut them out with a scalpel.

Let's choose the best place for the power cord on the mushroom stem and cut a hole for it.

Step 5: Texture

Let's trace the template (fragment) of the hat on a paper towel and cut it out 12 times. Mix wood glue (PVA glue) with a small amount of water and apply a large amount of “composition” to the cap, and then secure the cut out fragments with a paper towel.

When all the pieces are in place, wait half an hour and then generously apply glue on top of the towel.

Let's repeat the same steps for the leg.

Apply glue to the inner surface of the leg and the outer cap. Make sure that the glue has soaked all the folds. This will make the cardboard quite hard and smooth.

Let the mushroom dry overnight.

Step 6: Painting

Let's start by painting the inside of the cap, and then move on to the stem. You will have to repeat this process two or three times.

When the paint dries, paint the outer surface of the cap red (2-3 times).

Cut out the previously taped holes.

Trace the frill on a paper towel, cut it out and attach it to the leg.

Step 7: Backlight

Let's fix the LED strip in the form of a spiral. Cut the strip with scissors at the nearest “cut point”. Be careful when bending the strip to avoid damaging its conductors.

Let's cut the stranded wire into four pieces of 30-40 cm each and glue them together. We will strip/tin the ends of the wires and solder them to the LED strip. Apply hot melt glue to the connection. Let's mark the negative/positive conclusions with a marker. After this, apply hot glue to the LED strip for additional fixation on the cardboard.

Glue the power socket of the LED strip controller to the leg from the inside. Let's cut 4 pieces of single-core wire, solder them into the holes for the controller pins and insulate the soldering area. Let's cut out a small rectangular window for the controller's IR receiver and attach it to the inside of the case.

Let's pull the wires through the leg and glue it to the cap.

Step 8: Base

Trace the base on cardboard and cut it out. Glue both parts together and place the template on top of the glued blank. Using a scalpel, trace the lines on the template and cut out grooves for the LED strip.

Let's attach LEDs around the base. We will cut grooves wherever necessary. From the remaining stranded wire, cut four more pieces of 10-15 cm each, stripping/tinning them, and solder them to the end of the strip. Apply glue to the soldering area and attach the remaining part of the wire to the base. Note the pinout of the wires.

We put heat shrink on the wires. We solder the wires coming from the controller to the wires of the base tape. I connected it in an arbitrary way, but the power goes to power! I wanted the lighting of the hat to be different from the lighting of the base. Slide the heat shrink over the joints and shrink it.

Let's turn on the night light and make sure that the base illumination is working. Solder the wires coming from the LED strip in the header to the LED strip of the base.

If everything works as it should, glue the leg to the base.

Step 9: Decor

We glue the pebbles to the base one by one, as close to each other as possible. Completely seal the surface and ends.

Let's trim the plants and cover the mushroom with them. Let's stick more stones in the places where they are attached to the base. Let's cut several plants into smaller pieces and also glue them.

Add a little water to the glue and mix well. Apply the “composition” to the holes in the cap and push pieces of cotton wool into them. In smaller holes it is easier to push cotton wool from the outside, and for larger holes it is easier to push cotton wool from the inside.

Cut the cotton wool into strips, apply glue to the end of the cap along the entire circumference and glue the cotton wool.

Step 10: Final

As a backlight it is necessary to use LED strips low power. Strong heat in combination with cardboard and cotton wool will not do any good.

Step 11: Future Thoughts

I think that the night light would look even more impressive with a smoke machine and could very well be an interesting decoration for Halloween. I think there is something magical in this :)

I hope you liked the article 😉 Have a nice day everyone)