Part of the questions and answers video set. This also shows a simple signage system I used to sell the PCBs for, but have now put the PCB files on my website for free non-commercial use.
In this video I populate one completely with diffused 5mm RGB colour changing LEDs and add a USB cable to power it as an ornament.
The website page for the PCB software and file is:-
http://www.bigclive.com/freebies.htm
An eBay search for the diffused RGB LEDs is:-
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_nkw=100pcs+diffused+5mm+RGB+slow&_sop=15
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
In this video I populate one completely with diffused 5mm RGB colour changing LEDs and add a USB cable to power it as an ornament.
The website page for the PCB software and file is:-
http://www.bigclive.com/freebies.htm
An eBay search for the diffused RGB LEDs is:-
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_nkw=100pcs+diffused+5mm+RGB+slow&_sop=15
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
Have you still got these boards Clive?
I noticed a new streetlamp xmas light this week. it was an elongated triangle, with a wave illumination motion, over many leds, moving top to bottom. It's in 3 types, white only, 2 colours split top to bottom, but the 3rd version does a wave over a multicolour pane. I don't think they're pixel lights, but possibly RGB lights being kept at fixed colour gradations and the illumination wave superimposed over the fixed colour gradation. I haven't seen many about, and haven't manage to ID the make/model online so far.
What you were saying about school rang so true for me, I hated it too. It bored me, I just couldn't be bothered having to sit in a classroom and listen to the teacher. I would have much rather been doing something constructive. I did manage to leave school early at 15 to go to college to do motor vehicle engineering. I had to get permission from school which wasn't a problem, don't get me wrong I wasn't a disruptive pupil I wasn't there often enough to be one!! I remember the Safeway at Giffnock, it became Whole foods market after Morrisons moved. That didn't last long it's now a Lidl. My thoughts on school are best summed up by This, I went the first day fine but when my mum woke me up to go the next day I Just said, "What again?!!"
that electric shock story is pure comedy.
Pants or trousers??
It's called "Royal Mail" of course it cost astronomically … the queen needs dog food
I'm with you 100% about school, blue-collar, and self-employment. I think that you would do just fine here in the US…
i want clive's mom to be my friend. she sounds excellent.
Ah the naivety of youth. I turned up to my first day of apprenticeship in a jacket and tie. Soon learned that I had to buy a boiler suit and boots.
Bless your mum! More kids need people who believe in them like that! You're testament to what investing in a kid's interests and encouraging them can lead to! 👍❤️
What do you think of the dutch
Do they make colored non diffused?
I know this is late now, and you've changed in the last 3 years, what with all the fear mongering around brexit and…perhaps your fondness of America has wavered slightly lol. But the UK has actually given very little power away to the EU, and many of the laws they enforce echo the laws we had before, or would be introduced anyway.
I did apprenticeship in electronics but then end up going to uni and end up software. Kind of regret now age 50 am just irrelevant.. if I stuck with electronics could berelevent. Any advice ?
I wonder how Clive feels about some of the things now that a couple years and change have gone by. As the time has gone by, his content has occupied my screen increasingly often
Bah, in my 40s and cant grow a beard to save my life :/