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• Giving this project a spin again

  kristina panos • 02/14/2022 at 16:36 • 0 comments

  I'm picking this back up, but my PCB design is in a sorry state, and I'm rusty on the circuit anyway. So my new plan is to build a perfboard version first, and then go back to PCB design.

  
  So far I have collected nearly everything, but I can't find my chip tubes. I'd rather not take my breadboard circuit apart until the perfboard one is finished, because it's too darn fun to play with. But if I can't find my tubes, I might have to.
  

• Must make PCB!

  kristina panos • 01/07/2021 at 21:01 • 0 comments

  I don't know why I walked into the woods on this one. But I took enough time off from looking at it that when I looked at it again, I discovered that all the LEDs were wired incorrectly. Now it's been another four months or so since I looked it over. Wonder what I'll find this time?

• O Fortuna!

  kristina panos • 12/29/2019 at 13:42 • 0 comments

  Got them working in circle format. Now I that I've verified the spin order, I can redesign that PCB. 😬

• Fritzing around with vias

  kristina panos • 12/28/2019 at 13:55 • 0 comments

  Yesterday I went from
  

  • drawing my PCB plan out on the whiteboard, to
  • thinking it would be nice if I knew what I was doing enough to put some components on the back, like the coin cell holder at least, to
  • figuring out how to do it in Fritzing. Crazy! I've made my via bed and now I must lie in it.

• It moves!

  kristina panos • 12/28/2019 at 00:57 • 0 comments

  Isn't that Jell-o cube LED awesome?
  I have no idea why it takes so long to slow down and stop. It wasn't doing that earlier. The suspense may kill you.

• Breadboarding and resistor substitution

  kristina panos • 12/26/2019 at 23:37 • 0 comments

  I've breadboarded this up and it sort of works. I think the problem may be the extremely short leads on my 1uF cap, or else the fact that I don't have any 3.3MΩ resistors and substituted with three 1MΩ resistors in series. I do have six 100kΩ to make up the .3 on each, but I worried I wouldn't have the room. Time to rewire!

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