The building week has started!

Today I have been constructing the LED inards for the Snowmen & Santa figures.

The original inards consist of a single colour changing LED powered by batteries. Looks very pretty, but the LED colours aren’t controllable so it has to go.

The figures have both green & red LED’s each connected to a separate channel on the Olsen 595 board for independent control. The following pictures show the construction of the new inards.

These are the LED’s that go inside each figure, two of each colour are attached to a piece of veroboard with resistors and then one of each colour have longer legs attached so they reach in to the top of the figures to provide more light.

Inards complete! Next, work out how to attach them to the window…..

Welcome to another year of Christmas Lights, work has already begun on this years display. Due to a change in layout at Selby College I am building a brand new display for the ICT corridor. I have made the decission to move away from ICICLE controllers, and so have built a second Olsen 595 board. If your interested, these are the reasons why.

Building begins Sunday 25th November!

The lights will be going up at Selby College on the 30th of November, to be switched on at 4:30PM on Thursday the 1st December. Top floor of the academy building!