DeeJai
Is that Magic Smoke?!?
Well, Having seen Plasma's pixicles, I thought it was a good time to try make these myself. These are available for sale for about $10 each (large drop) plus postage from Ray Wu. I had a qty of 2812B strip left over from my mega tree, so i thought I would see if I could make it for cheaper.
Please be aware, the design for these is Plasmadrives, not mine, I have used his design as somewhat of a template. I have also used whatever else I had laying around.
So lets begin
Firstly I needed to figure out length of drops. I tried 20/16/10 pixels, and found that they were just too long, so through discussions, I decided to try slightly smaller ones. So the drops will be 14/10/6 pixels. The 3 drops will cover a distance of approximately 1m horizontally.
So cut my strip and exposed the copper pads. (Ensure you remove all silicone else you will find it difficult to add solder to these pads.
For the input end of the strip, I added solder to all three pads, for the output end, I only added solder to the Data pad. The reason for this, is I am going to run a single wire from the data back to the output plug, Power for this plug will be provided directly from the input plug, Like this.
The data wire from below will come up and join the non attached red wire.
From here it is a matter of adding some silicone and heatshrink.
More to follow
Please be aware, the design for these is Plasmadrives, not mine, I have used his design as somewhat of a template. I have also used whatever else I had laying around.
So lets begin
Firstly I needed to figure out length of drops. I tried 20/16/10 pixels, and found that they were just too long, so through discussions, I decided to try slightly smaller ones. So the drops will be 14/10/6 pixels. The 3 drops will cover a distance of approximately 1m horizontally.
So cut my strip and exposed the copper pads. (Ensure you remove all silicone else you will find it difficult to add solder to these pads.
For the input end of the strip, I added solder to all three pads, for the output end, I only added solder to the Data pad. The reason for this, is I am going to run a single wire from the data back to the output plug, Power for this plug will be provided directly from the input plug, Like this.
The data wire from below will come up and join the non attached red wire.
From here it is a matter of adding some silicone and heatshrink.
More to follow