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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Did you get any hardware or geek toys this holiday?
We received two replacement soldering irons for the Aoyue 968 rework station in the lab. The plastic handle on the old iron broke, but it still worked so we epoxied it back together. Not a fan of high heat, the epoxy often came loose in the middle of long soldering sessions. We kept gluing it back together, but it was high time for a new iron. Like most tools, this is a gift we’ll appreciate all year long.
Marisa tipped us to another interactive Christmas tree that uses Twitter. Alpay Kasal’s Twistmas Tree uses Processing to scrape Twitter search results for keywords. Ornaments with holiday keywords blink when new search results are found.
A netbook running Processing with Twitter4J is used for performing searches of predetermined holiday words and generates a queue of ornament blinks.
Alpay-Kasal
