Magnetic orb light.

That would have been "New 3W COB LED Light Angel" slightly bigger, PIR activated light: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/julius256/videos" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/user/julius256/videos</a>

Stephen Eyles

Thanks Clive.

Nuts 'n' Proud

Also, bloody effective... <a href="http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-11-29-22.15.19a.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-11-29-22.15.19a.jpg</a>

Mark Dennehy

THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY DINKY! I didn't quite get the size from the video, but they're complete sqeee :D I had to get three of them in the end. Two are going to be lights for the lab and the third may have a future as a small raspberry pi telescope mount of some kind... <a href="http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-11-29-21.17.46a.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-11-29-21.17.46a.jpg</a>

Mark Dennehy

I'm not sure. I'll have to take a look. It's always interesting to see someone elses take on something.

Big Clive

I bought a two sets of the USB cable with Christmas lights attached from poundland. One of them is fine, the other clearly doesn't have a resistor in line with the LEDs, so that's still a little production problem of theirs. One of them popped, the others have got hot enough to melt the little plastic covers off.

hasn't julian ilett just 'review dismantled' one of these fairly recently too ;)

mark barratt

Actually, that design got used for a very cool beginners telescope back when we were kids : <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroscan" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroscan</a> Sadly they don't make them anymore (they literally broke the mould) but there is talk that they'll make them again in a year or two because they were so popular. Until then, grab one of these, stick a very small 3d-printed frame in it and a raspberry pi camera and you'd have yourself a cheapy astroscan version of a pikon (the existing 3d-printed raspberry pi telescope). Damn. I guess I need to ask Santa for a resin printer...

Mark Dennehy

It would make quite a nice positionable mount for a camera.

Big Clive

It's Dealz here on the Isle of Man too. I guess Onepoundtwentyland didn't sound quite right.

Big Clive

A nice mount for my Raspberry Pi-zero based streaming camera ;-)

Gordo

Actually, one of those would be bloody handy for over the desk in the lab, I must call into dealz tomorrow and see if they have them (dealz is the Irish trading name for poundland).

Mark Dennehy

The 3-mode thing is also quite pointless on a bike. I'd quite like to mod one of these lights to use as a secondary, sort of high-beam lamp for my bike. I wouldn't mind the modes that much but the cycling through them is idiotic. I'd like an additional on/off switch that just goes into whatever mode it's set to. A hardware switch wouldn't do it as it could turn off the light by cutting the power, but starting it would require an additional soft button press. Instead of being able to switch to 5-mode mode, I'd much prefer a single-mode mode, i.e. on/off. But apparently one would need to rebuild everything.

horrovac

I forgot to test for that. It does indeed have the SOS mode.

Big Clive

Yep I bet that's a standard bike light chip. Try staying on the switch a couple of seconds, that usually switches it to 5 modes which make even less sense, I believe additionally an ultra-low and SOS mode.

horrovac

I have two very similar ones at home. Local garden centre was knocking them out at £10 .

Neil Tonks