Velleman Mini Kit

Now armed with a soldering iron and some soldering wire I wanted to try my soldering skills before getting my Arduino. From the first visit I got a kit from Maplin which includes all the components, board and battery holder (no battery). All I needed was the soldering iron, solder and skills.

I chose the “Flasing LED Sweetheat” kit model “MK101” which consisted of LEDs mounted on a heart shaped PCB.

I was scared it wouldn’t work but the instructions were clear and simple with little explanation but I understood it. After soldering all 28 LEDs as well as various switches, capacitors. resistors, etc the final results were good except where I screwed up one of the soldering points. This led to 4 LEDs not working but the rest does. A simple resoldering would fix it but I need to buy some desoldering wick.

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I.T software professional always studying and applying the knowledge gained and one way of doing this is to blog. Danny also has participates in a part time project called Energy@Home [http://code.google.com/p/energyathome/] for monitoring energy usage on a premise. Dedicated to I.T since studying pure Information Technology since the age of 16, Danny Tsang working in the field that he has aimed for since leaving school. View all posts by Danny → This entry was posted in Hardware. Bookmark the permalink.

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