Friday, June 27, 2008

Sparkle pony

My brother had a birthday at the beginning of this year, I think I sent him my present about 4 months after his birthday

BUT

in my defence it was a pretty cool present.

I got one of these kits from Evil Mad Scientist. I bought this thing sight unseen from Amerikkka, and took it on with only the barest of soldering ability.

I got a mate to show me how to solder small components - to my amazement it turned out to be very satisfying, so much so that I was disappointed when there was no more to do. Every soldering attempt in the past has been (a) messy and (b) incredibly frustrating.

I bought a lot of LEDs from here - even at only 25c each, it really adds up when you're buying hundreds.

I got them all soldered on after much deliberating over the layout. In case you don't know, my brother DJs under the name Haszari - he made himself a logo which is essentially an 'H'. This is what I built:

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It has a light sensor, so it won't drain those big D cells during the day:

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Photos courtesy of Haszari cos I forgot to take any.

P.S. after TOO LONG editing the template for this blog, the photos no longer overlap the words at the side. No worries.

3 comments:

That'll do said...

Hey, these photos are from our house! The light sensor thing does freak me out a bit though - walk into a room and suddenly a big green Haszari logo lights up.... but it's kind of cool too.

Eon said...

Oh cool! I can get you to fix my LED clock which had a disappointing amount of LEDs stop working in a very short amount of time.

Haszari said...

Hey check out the travels of the peggy H! They must have scraped facebook I think.