After finishing the drawn to scale sketch, you make the flashlight (of course)! I was supposed to cut the straight pipes into the size I wanted it to be, but I found a perfect pipe in the bin, and Mr. Calvert was nice to allow me to use it for my flashlight. So, I don’t need to cut anything! Mr. Calvert said that we can use the plugs, and elbow pipes right from the bin because he didn’t have any that we had to cut.

Okay, so now I have the pipes, but I still needed to drill holes for the LED light and switch. We had to use the drill press to make the holes. There are two drill presses. One is for the LED light and one is for the switch. The LED light hole is bigger than the switch, so that’s why we need two drills. Drilling wasn’t that hard. All you have to do is wear lab goggles, put the pipe under the drill — the pipe goes into this thing which tightens the pipe so that you can drill the hole, and turn the drill on and drill the hole.

Once I was finished, I used markers to decorate my flashlight. But I was not done yet, I needed to cut and strip the wires, get my switch, battery, and LED light, and glue them altogether.

Making the outside of the flashlight was fun to make!