I wanted to share the second incarnation of my side-mounted LED pen. I always wanted to make a mini-LED pen for use at my desk since I started this crazy project in March.
I took a small laser pointer, cut off the laser diode, and then attached leads to the provided switch(negative end) and case (which carries the positive). Using a Vishay TSMF3710-GS08 surface mounted (SMT type) LED I was able to solder the leads coming out the end and fold the LED over to form the point. See pics below...
Link to my Picasa page for more on this and other wiimote projects:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Micbridge/WiimoteWhiteboardProject