Thanks for the digg button. Got mine in the mail today and put it together -- used a USB header wire to attach the +5v.
Looking forward to adding the florescent yellow cover, and serial port interface.
My digg.
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- Malic
- Posts: 18
- Joined: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:40 am
Me too!
Mine came in yesterday and I tore into it right away. It's the first serious soldering I've done ever and it worked right away!
The tip of my finger was a casualty - impaled it while pushing the switch into the PC board. Tip: lay the PCB on a clean washcloth or some corrugated cardboard when pushing the switch in.
Also, one more thing. The pins of the LCD element in my kit were bent up badly when I first opened it which was initially worrisome. However, I was fortunate to be able to bend them back into shape. Perhaps some foam backing for shipping like the DIP had is in order?
Honestly, this was a lot of fun and I really would like to see more AVR projects/kits from AdaFruit. Strange fool that I am, I miss assembly programming! Please don't forget us Mac folk (no serial/parallel ports, compiler needs, etc.) should such projects be developed.
Now... off to that MintyBoost kit that I was afraid to tackle until now...
The tip of my finger was a casualty - impaled it while pushing the switch into the PC board. Tip: lay the PCB on a clean washcloth or some corrugated cardboard when pushing the switch in.
Also, one more thing. The pins of the LCD element in my kit were bent up badly when I first opened it which was initially worrisome. However, I was fortunate to be able to bend them back into shape. Perhaps some foam backing for shipping like the DIP had is in order?
Honestly, this was a lot of fun and I really would like to see more AVR projects/kits from AdaFruit. Strange fool that I am, I miss assembly programming! Please don't forget us Mac folk (no serial/parallel ports, compiler needs, etc.) should such projects be developed.
Now... off to that MintyBoost kit that I was afraid to tackle until now...
- rolandblais
- Posts: 5
- Joined: Sun May 20, 2007 7:17 pm
built.
I received mine quickly, and it went together easily, and worked as soon as the battery went in. The only caveat was that 1 pin was *really* badly bent on the LED display, and several were moderately badly bent on the chip. I suspect it was from being pushed into the foam.
I can say the unit is quite rugged, and very forgiving of newbishness. I'm not new to soldering but it's been yeeeeaaaarrrrsssss since I've had to do any. And yes, it can survive several drops onto the tabletop from a height of a few inches (I'm not the most dexterous person, not do I have a cool vise). I now have a cool digg button for my cube. Thanks!
Peace,
R
*edit* - Fyi, the battery life for "constant on" is about 2.5 days.
I can say the unit is quite rugged, and very forgiving of newbishness. I'm not new to soldering but it's been yeeeeaaaarrrrsssss since I've had to do any. And yes, it can survive several drops onto the tabletop from a height of a few inches (I'm not the most dexterous person, not do I have a cool vise). I now have a cool digg button for my cube. Thanks!
Peace,
R
*edit* - Fyi, the battery life for "constant on" is about 2.5 days.
- [email protected]
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Sun May 27, 2007 10:35 am
Dear god it's beautiful
Got mine and made it immediately, it is simply beautiful and beautifully simple. Would love a clock in a similar style with the transparent perspex.
It is gorgeous. Very well designed indeed.
It is gorgeous. Very well designed indeed.
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Just got mine today, its awesome, simple, pretty, works great! right now im using mine to count how many times my mom nags me during the week. Just some suggestions that could make the Digg button, or just any button a good project.
You could make a count-up/down timer
a built in USB port on the board
and a bigger unit so you can fit more LEDs.
personally any kit with an led display is cool to me so those are my suggestions. obviously they wouldn't make it a digg button anymore, it would be very easy to make a bigger board, to get a bigger lcd display, and to reprogram the same micro controller so just some things I thought might be worth looking into.
thanks for such a great kit!
You could make a count-up/down timer
a built in USB port on the board
and a bigger unit so you can fit more LEDs.
personally any kit with an led display is cool to me so those are my suggestions. obviously they wouldn't make it a digg button anymore, it would be very easy to make a bigger board, to get a bigger lcd display, and to reprogram the same micro controller so just some things I thought might be worth looking into.
thanks for such a great kit!
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