On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Brian J. Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone have a video or a guide with images for each step for the > Electronic kit that was given away at last year's OpenWest conference? My > daughter found mine in my desk and wants to do it but I haven learned how > to read the schematics yet. > > >From what I recall (please someone verify the resistors if they can): - Empty the bag - Solder the LEDs onto the board first, with the dark square on the front aligned with the mountain peaks (so if the mountain is on top, the square should be on top) - There should be a pack of 6 resistors. They're all the same, and they go in the 1uF spots and the 4.7uF spot (they changed their minds after boards were printed, ignore the 4.7) They can be soldered in either direction. - There's a set of two and one black resistors, and you can see the 68R spots for the 2, and the 1K5 for the one. Again, soldered in either direction. - There are two diodes that you slip into the two spots for them, black ends pointing inward (the spots have that labeled as well). Solder after it's pulled all the way through and THEN use snips to cut off the excess. - the two switches only go in one direction despite looking square, and it doesn't matter which way they go in. Solder appropriately. - USB is easy too. - The IC goes in with the dot notch closest to the dot on the PCB It's pre-programmed that it will go through a little test on all the LEDs when supplied USB power, so plug it in and wait a good ten seconds to see if your wiring worked (you don't get to test the switches without writing your own test). I've done three of these, and screwed up two of them (one still not working) so be prepared to do some testing with a multimeter if you can, but if you can keep a clean solder and not burn the LEDs you should be fine. Cheers! -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
