I really enjoyed the process of coming up with ideas for my plush nightlight. I will continuously work on coming up with fun ideas!
I came up with a bunch of ideas, but I narrowed it down to four ideas for now:
Oh yes! It is an Arduino exercises time for week 3. Let’s play around with LEDs and buttons!!
Unfortunately, my LED was not working. Without knowing that from the beginning, I had to spend 3 hours doing CIRC-07 over and over. In my mind, I was constantly asking myself: “what the heck is wrong? what am I doing wrong here?” Once I changed my LED to Lassor’s LED, I finally realized that my stupid LED was broken from the beginning. Oh well, thanks Lassor for letting me use his LED for a couple hour.
Here is a “making better” part. I tried to make a shadow of red color, but you would barely see it.
Lastly, I borrowed another botton from Jiani and tried to make LED piano. Hope you had a fun!
Check this video below! It contains my variations of lessons on CIRC-02 and CIRC-06 exercise.
I changed the speed and arrangement of light for the first one, and for the second one I made it play Super Mario theme song!!!
PCB had HDMI connector, A/V outlet, DC IN 5V for charging.
The product has a very complicated assembly consisting of:
The Kodak Zx1 was a Pocket Video Camera released in 2009. Its logic board carries multiple chips on PCB:
The Tools that I used to take it apart:
Apparently, I picked a quite delicately made object. At the first glance, this pocket camera seemed very simple and easy to tear down. I was totally wrong about that and took me quite long time to understand each part. I used simple techniques of delicately unscrewing many cross head screws, and there were many of them even inside of the camera to hold its PCB. I also used multitool to open up its case and detaching the LED monitor screen from the aluminum board. I found that there are yellow plastic cover between monitor screen and PCB, and it was there for protecting processor chips. I was also very amazed by the size of camera that were placed on the PCB. Perhaps, I should use this camera component for Arduino later.
The size of this pocket camera was just about the size of cigarette case, but it had rounded corner. I also found that the plastic extorior was coated with rubber material. The designer of the camera must have designed it this way for users to have a better grip, and I like the way it was.
My name is Juho. My background is in Psychology and Business, having graduated from New york university. I love making new friends and learning about new cultures.
I was born and raised in South Korea. When I was 15, I made a big decision of having my education in US. So, I ended up going a high school that is located in Wisconsin. I’ve been lucky to meet a lot of great people there. Then, I moved to New York City for my undergrad, and I met a lof of awesome people here as well. There is so much to tell you about who I am. I can’t wait to get to know each other throughout this year.
