For the Boldport Club project “The Matrix” I used hot air soldering for the first time. After some experimenting and with help from Boldport Club members, it worked really well. I could colder the 120 LEDs in less than 10 minutes to the board. I made a video about the process. Please keep in mind, I…
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SMD LEDs Tests
Today I tested a number of SMD LEDs for the plant watering sensor project. I soldered all 13 LEDs I shortlisted onto a small board and connected it to an Arduino Zero Pro. So I could try the different flashing styles I planed to use more or less automatically. That way I could focus on the LED flashing itself,…
Outmoded Sequencer Music Demo
For the demo video in my previous post, I did not really choose nice melodies. So I created a small composition using the outmoded sequencer: For this music I connected the outmoded sequencer directly, after the potentiometer for the volume control, to an audio interface. Now I recorded the sound of the sequencer while I…
Boldport “The Cuttle” Arrived
Today the new project from Boldport Club arrived. It is called “The Cuttle” and it is a minimal configuration of the ATMega328-PU microcontroller with minimal elements to get it running. As usual the PCB is artfully designed in shape of a cuttlefish. Soldering was easy this time. Here some photos of the project how it arrived and…
SMD Soldering
Here a video where I solder a SMD practice board. While the 1206 and 0805 are more or less easy to solder, the really small 0603 cause a lot of troubles.