Menorah555

I made a YouTube video showing the menorah and only used open-source tools to create it, just as I only used open-source tools to design the menorah hardware. Since this was my first time trying to edit a video for YouTube, it may have taken me as long as it took to design the menorah :)

Easy enough. There was just a bad solder joint on the LED current-limiting resistor. Was it my fault or can I blame it on gremlins?

Ok, Hanukkah is over, but I wanted to take photos for this page. Debug time! What is it? Assembly error? Design error? Sabotage? Who knows?

The first build (rev A) is working just in time for the end of Hanukkah. The LEDs light when the shamash magnet is brought near the reed switches. I reworked it a bit to add one diode because the 0.5F supercap keeps the shamash lit for more than 20 minutes when power is turned off. The diode drains the charge quickly when the power switch is turned off, but allows the shamash LED to stay on for a long time when it is pulled out to light the other LED candles.