0% plastic flashlight [MakerID-30]

        Wassup people! I'm Linda. :D  For our 2018 school Maker Faire, I decided to make a plastic free flashlight using Chibitronics. I decided to make this because I have noticed that there was a lot of waste of oil. According to Business Insider, it take about 714000000 gallons of oil to make plastic water bottles each year. Out of 30 billion plastic water bottles in the US (in 2005), only 12 percent were recycled. Which leaves 25 billion water bottles ending up in landfills, incinerated or littered. And that's only water bottles, I mean like what about everything else that we use which are made out of plastic? So I decided to make plastic free flashlights to reduce the use of plastic. I thought that if I did this, it would be great because people could learn to make it themselves, and no longer worry about things ranging from global warming (I mean you would have to worry about it, but not really about making it worse.) to not having the design of flashlight that you like. I first had started out with a branch, but then i decided that a branch was not durable enough so I switched to using a salt container. I had cut off the top part so i could put all the ugly looking duct tape and copper tape and other stuff inside to hide it. The main criteria is to use the least amount of material as possible. then it's too make it portable and easy to carry. I had made a prototype with the tree branch first. It worked well, just that the connection is really unstable. Like if you tilt the battery to the side a little bit, the light would start to flicker. I had overcomes this problem with a little help from my classmates, and rechecking the connection. I learned that putting duct tape on when the circus connection is bad isn't always useful. So far I am still working on the switch for the light, which would conserve a lot of energy. If you are like me and want to do this project at home, consider not peeling the back of the copper tape until you need it or else it won't stick and the connection will therefore be bad. 

Estimated cost: $30 - $38 
Link to tutorial on how to make Chibitronic light switches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx9DRwNP3P0