atkelar | Build #5 - Christmas Ornament @atkelar | Uploaded December 2020 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
This is a shorter one, fitting the season and allowing me to get some older videos out.
When I got my first Arduino, back in 2016, I wanted to do a test-project with it. Complete with some poking around in GitHub to see what all the hubub was about. I decided to implement a sort of "advanced blink" project, where I could control the blinking pattern for several channels of LEDs. As a practical use case, I wanted to make a nice looking, cartoony christmas ornament, based on a comic by Keno Don Rosa ("Fir-Tree Fracas", originally published in 1988) where Donald Duck is trying to impress his family and a tiny snag (literally) turns his elaborate and expensive Christmas tree into a modern art installation, whith the lights blinking "S.O.S." in morse code. I loved that little throwaway joke so much, that I had to incorporate it into my little project!
I commissioned Karpour to draw the illustration of myself getting tangled up in Christmas lights, so I could put the LEDs into the proper spots.
I didn't want to fiddle with transistors, so I looked up what the Arduino was capable of and kept it at two LEDs per pin, with seven used pins total. That should keep things cool and stable.
A written instruction manual and the source code is located at the GitHub project here: github.com/Atkelar/XMasOrnament
If enough interest is put forward, I might clean up and put out the PowerShell pattern creation script too... it's just too "quick and dirty" to be proud of, so I kept it from the public repo...
If you make a version, please be sure to poke me and share pictures!
Donate a few bucks for some coffee (or some equipment upgrades)
ko-fi.com/atkelar
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:04 Software / PROGMEM Problem
1:43 Software Explained / Testrun
2:30 Outside Design / Cutout
3:13 LED Holes
3:57 Arduino Mount / Artwork Print Attachment
4:26 LED Circuit and Soldering
5:21 Summary / Credits / Outtake
Music:
My Train's A Comin'
Unicorn Heads
(YouTube Audio Library)
This is a shorter one, fitting the season and allowing me to get some older videos out.
When I got my first Arduino, back in 2016, I wanted to do a test-project with it. Complete with some poking around in GitHub to see what all the hubub was about. I decided to implement a sort of "advanced blink" project, where I could control the blinking pattern for several channels of LEDs. As a practical use case, I wanted to make a nice looking, cartoony christmas ornament, based on a comic by Keno Don Rosa ("Fir-Tree Fracas", originally published in 1988) where Donald Duck is trying to impress his family and a tiny snag (literally) turns his elaborate and expensive Christmas tree into a modern art installation, whith the lights blinking "S.O.S." in morse code. I loved that little throwaway joke so much, that I had to incorporate it into my little project!
I commissioned Karpour to draw the illustration of myself getting tangled up in Christmas lights, so I could put the LEDs into the proper spots.
I didn't want to fiddle with transistors, so I looked up what the Arduino was capable of and kept it at two LEDs per pin, with seven used pins total. That should keep things cool and stable.
A written instruction manual and the source code is located at the GitHub project here: github.com/Atkelar/XMasOrnament
If enough interest is put forward, I might clean up and put out the PowerShell pattern creation script too... it's just too "quick and dirty" to be proud of, so I kept it from the public repo...
If you make a version, please be sure to poke me and share pictures!
Donate a few bucks for some coffee (or some equipment upgrades)
ko-fi.com/atkelar
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:04 Software / PROGMEM Problem
1:43 Software Explained / Testrun
2:30 Outside Design / Cutout
3:13 LED Holes
3:57 Arduino Mount / Artwork Print Attachment
4:26 LED Circuit and Soldering
5:21 Summary / Credits / Outtake
Music:
My Train's A Comin'
Unicorn Heads
(YouTube Audio Library)
