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555 Blinky Dudes

January 17, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

So, I came across this simple, yet cool project and decided to make a couple of these guys as a smaller present for my girlfriend’s birthday. It was a bit challenging to get all of the soldering to work out, and I’m sure almost all of the joints were made cold. I modified the design a little to use the capacitor as a leg, since in the original ones, the ground wire is a leg and the capacitor is on the board. I took out the ground wire, since one of the capacitor’s leads goes to ground, which became the new ground wire. So now they’re more free-standing, and able to dance.

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