I’m used to soldering being a rather intense experience—setting some fuel on fire, adding in highly-explosive oxygen to create a wicked hot flame, flowing your solder without creating a melted puddle of metal… Now soldering circuits, on the other hand, is just as exciting and so much more chill! At Maker Faire a few weeks ago I met Steen from Noisebridge, a co-op of programmers, engineers, hardware hackers and the like located in the Mission. I’ve always wanted to learn to solder LEDs and he suggested I check out their Monday night workshop. I went last night and had a total blast, met some really cool people, and for $7 built one of the circuits above—the Trippy RGB Waves Kit v1.0 to be exact. The LED cycles through different colors and has an infrared sensor that detects when your hand passes above and resets. When arranged in a group you can time the reset to make patterns with the light. Sooo cool! Noisebridge is awesome and I recommend checking em out. Yet another reason why, for all its silliness, I totally love living in this City.
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Today… little blinky lights… tomorrow… THE WORLD!
Blending the geeky with the sparkly… as only you can! You go, girl…