Piotr got a hackable Christmas card PCB on free PCB Sunday, and made this time-lapse video of his build. Excellent use of tweezers, a key tool for surface mount soldering.
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Tags: build, Christmas card, holiday, time-lapse
Seeed Studio sent word that the Hackable Christmas ornament is out of production and should start shipping in a few days, about 2 weeks early. Great job Seeed!
There’s still a couple of ornaments available. A surface mount kit is $12, and Seeed will assemble yours for $3 more ($15 assembled).
Tags: preorder updates
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few professionally-made PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype.
This week we’re giving away free PCBs for the Hackable Christmas ornament. We made these for family and friends this holiday, but due to minimum order sizes we got twice what we needed. The extra ornaments are available at Seeed Studio as a $12 surface mount kit, and Seeed will assemble yours for $3 more ($15 assembled).
The Instructables version of the Hackable Christmas card & ornament is up.
Seeed has copies of the card as a surface mount kit for $12, or assembled for $15. The card is already being manufactured so it can be delivered ASAP. The Seeed stock numbers aren’t accurate, less than 100 are being produced and we’re almost out of the assembled version now.
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Tags: christmas, instructables, preorder updates
Holiday cards that blink and beep have always fascinated us. This is our hackable DIY version, made with an ATtiny13A and a few LEDs. Push the button to play a short light show in the tree. We’re sending these to friends and family this year. It’s a handmade, hackable gift, and it was a ton of fun to build.
The card is also an homage to Velleman’s blinking Christmas tree ornament kit, and a kit-biz reference to the Adafruit Promise. (Did you know Velleman has a nixie tube clock kit? Really!)
You can buy a copy of our card at Seeed Studio. Assembled cards are $15, and a kit for adventurous solderers is $12. We’re excited to gauge interest an SMD kit, and hope to offer it as an option for future projects.
Video, hardware, firmware, and more, after the break.
Tags: atmel, ATtiny, avr, blinken christmas, christmas