Dec 282009
LadyAda sells a pretty neat kit to allow you to give your USB gadgets power from 2 AA batteries. To create the “Boost” (save for batteries) The capacitors, IC Socket, schottky diode, etc.. took roughly 10 minutes to solder onto the PCB using these instructions, and another 15 minutes and 2 Altoids gum tins to give it the “Minty” part. Note: I spent the better part of 2 days locating these gum tins in the midwest. Eventually I found them at CVS of all places.
Sep 282009
625 LEDs? 156 Giant RGBW Pixels? 1500+ solder points? Arduino programming? Check, Check, Check and Check. Sounds awesome doesn’t it? It sure does, but WHAT does this thing do? What are the applications? Why would someone want to build this? Keep on reading.