Summary

A friend of mine is all about bunnies - so i got one of these cheap solar garden lights and hacked it into a garden bunny with a carrot, that serves as mount for the solar panel.

Instructions

Everything ist printed in PLA with 0.8mm wall thickness for the bunnie and 1.2mm wall thickness for the carrot and the connecting parts and 0% infill and support as needed - depends on what your Printer is capable of. I generally print PLA at 210°C and 40mm/s.

The LED holder must be mounted to the bunny. Therefore it is neccessary to drill another 10mm hole into the bottom of the bunny and an approriate hole for the wiring into the LED holder. The LED holder then needs to be glued to the bottom of the bunny. The peg, that came with the solar light, goes into the bottom ore of the that LED holder and done is the bunny.

Drill out some holes in the carrot for the wiring - 8mm in the top and whatever suits your needs for the side hole. I used a 6mm grommit to seal the wiring from the carrot to the LED in the rabbit. The solar mount can be screwed into the existing part of the solar garden light, that contains the solar cell, the "electronics", and the rechargeable AAA battery. I sprayd that solar mount and the original part green and glued at into the carrot using hot glue.

To glue PLA parts together I generally use Pattex Plastix, which is a glue that consists of an activator and the glue itself: http://www.pattex.de/do-it-yourself-mit-pattex-klebstoffe-produkte-new/pattex-klebstoffe/sekundenkleber/sekundenkleber-plastik.html - I didn't find anything better to glue PLA.

As for the minimalistic electronics within the solar light - you mght want to renew some of the very poor quality cables and soldering and added some heat shrink to it. You also might want to charge the AAA NiMH battery, that comes with the solar light, with a regular charger once, as it usually will be rather low on charge.

Basically it all depends on what model of solar light you are using - in the end it sems, they are all very similar. I used that one, as it already has a spearated LED:

http://tnm.scene7.com/is/image/TNM/1426972000_prod_001

Solar Bunny