Dynamo torch into Dynamo Flashlight

A few weeks ago I built the Dynamo Torch, but now I want to try and upgrade it to an functional flashlight of sorts if possible.  I am unsure of how to do this at the moment though.  I would think I would need to add a battery or capacitor of some sort to hold the charge from the winding of the hand crank.


If anyone has any idea's or finds some instructions on how to do this that would be great.  I might just go pick up a hand cranking flashlight from Target and take that apart to see how it works and then do that.  It kind of defeats the purpose of the build but I still think that I would be able to get something useful out of the project for me and the girls. 

Dynamo Torch on a rainy day

It had been raining non stop for about 3 days in SoCal and my daughters have been couped up in the house as school is out for the holiday season.  My youngest was just put to nap, so my oldest and I were the only ones around.

I know its quite close to Christmas but I remember that I bought a Dynamo Torch a while back that was sitting in my car just waiting to be built.  If I remember it cost a little more because I bought it from a brick and mortar store not from Amazon, good to know for the next one right.  

The boxes the company make look really slick that might have been the reason I picked one up.  They also make it look super easy to build this projects.  A while back I posted about making a dynamo torch, but I did not know it had an actual name to it at the time.  

The whole build was really simple, and only took about 15 minutes, I kind of wish it took longer but there is not really much to do when building this project.