This is quite well known toy... simple plate printed with glow in the dark filament and a pen with built in LED... assembly requires a bit of soldering and patience for debugging :-) I used spare parts that I found at home, but these are easily available in any e-shop with Arduino-like electronics.
Print instructions
Glowing plate
Print glowing_plate drawing side down.
Smooth sheet is preferable. This way you will get smooth surface for your doodles.
I overextruded first layer a little to make sure there wont be any holes or imperfections in a surface.
Use hardened steel nozzle.
From my experience, roughly 1mm thickness of glowing material is enough for drawing, the rest of the plate can be printed with normal filament
Pen assembly:
Prepare all printable parts
You will also need:
glue (super glue)
tweezers (optional)
tools for soldering
2x 20 cm long wires, with no more than 1mm outer diameter.
2x AAA baterry
5mm LED, color of your choice (UV do the best)
2x "Arduino header" JWT female cable connectors
1x switch button
1 pair of AAA contacts
reisitor (I used 20 Ohm that was laying around.)
Take one cable connector and attach it to resisotr. You can use soldering.
note: dont put resistor too close to connector, you need some space there
Solder short piece of wire to the other end of the resistor
note: keep that 90° angle there
Prepare the button - remove unnecessary pair of contacts or bend them inwards
note: use your multimeter to decide which contacts you are going to cut
Solder the button to the wire
Take button_body and insert your cable contact through it as in the pictures below
Cover the cable contact
note: be carefull of plastic cover position with respect to the contact itself. It needs to click together. Use tweezers or other tool to help you.
Take one cable connector and attach it to wire. You can use solder.
Pass wire through the button_body
Both connectors should fit inside
Solder wire to second button contact
Thread the wire through the other end of the button_body
Push the button inside, it should not fall too deep.
Trimm the LEDs leads to the same length
note: mark the polarity
Insert the LED
Thread the wires through middle_spacer.
note that "S" folding on black wire. It makes much more wire length tolerance. You will need it. Also make sure that black wire is much longer than main pen body.
Solder the AAA contact.
note: I trimmed mine AAA contacts with scizors to fit round shape
Glue AAA contact in place. And push the middle_spacer to the button_body
note: There should be enough space for squeezed in wires.
Take middle_spacing_ring .
note: there is a round cut for wire
Thread black wire through middle_spacing_ring and pen_body.
note: black wire should have some overhang. Also note that there is a groove for wire inside of the pen_body. You can glue those parts together button_body, middle_spacer, middle_spacing_ring and pen_body) after you get sure that it works.
Solder second AAA contact.
Place AAA batteries inside of the pen_body. Bend the AAA contact inwards and push it down to the batteries. Take cap_spacing_ring and screw the cap
note: that "S" like folding you did earlier should allow the wire to go inside a little bit better.
Cover the LED with the pen_tip and tip_spacing_ring
note: Check your LED position and LED leads length. Pen_tip should not push down the LED. You can change LED's color anytime later.