Here’s a quick guide on how to make some small headlights for your esk8 build that are quite bright and pretty nice looking. I used these headlights in a recent custom build (full build log is coming soon).
Stuff required:
- 4x 3W LEDs (such as these)
- Aluminum sheet
- Thermally conductive adhesive
- Epoxy
- 3D Printer
- Small heatsinks (such as these)
- Clear acrylic sheet
The heatsinks might seem like a niche thing, but I guess I just had those laying around from an old project…not expensive though
Build steps:
- Solder together LEDs
- Cut out small pieces of aluminum sheet and mount heatsinks to back with thermal adhesive
- Mount LEDs to heatsink assembly with thermal adhesive
- Insert LED assembly into 3D printed case (STL below) and solder on wires
- Cut out small acrylic covers and epoxy them on
- Profit:
beam profile:
from the front:
STL for the case: headlight_case.zip (27.3 KB)