LEAP#357 The Monarch
The Monarch is another beautiful electronic “bug” from the Boldport Club. As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub
The Monarch joins The Lady and The Gent in the Boldport Bug series. They are all exceptionally beautiful boards and make a nice display piece..
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LEAP#356 PX088A Für Elise Music Chip
Another potted music chip! Figuring them out is half the fun;-)
The PX088A is a simple, nondescript single-tune chip. Found out it plays the main theme from Beethoven’s Für Elise. The recommended configuration turned out to be a battery killer, but I was able to get it working with a few adjustments.
As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub
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LEAP#355 Snow Flake
When @LuckResistor announced the Snow Flake to the Boldport Club community, I knew I had to join in!
The Snow Flake is an Atmel SAM D ARM Cortex-M0-controlled LED ornament. I’ve just completed building the first Once I have built some more I will be able to experiment with co-ordinated operation, but even a single snowflake makes for an impressive display.
As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub
The LED animation effects look much better in video form of course :
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LEAP#354 PissOff Mutant Offspring
Somewhere in my travels (Five Below?) I picked up a cheap SpiderBot robot kit mainly to see how they drive the legs. OK, interesting for about 15 minutes then I guess I started channeling Sid and decided to hook it up with the BoldPort PissOff.
So now I have an angry sentry dog that scuttles about like a spider.
As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub
The motor in the SpiderBot is really dirty and I had real trouble controlling it without interference, even with extreme isolation. But perhaps imperfect crazy action is better after all..
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