A set of miniature fairy lights for a miniature Christmas tree driven by an ATtiny2313. Please see benryves.com/pr... for more information and downloads.
Awesome! I agree with Nathaniel, your voice is really suited to instructional video. Reminds me a lot of Fred Harris. He's not on TV so much anymore (not even sure if he is still with us), but I vividly remember him from watching the BBC computer related shows as a kid in the 80's. Keep it up, more videos!
Oh wow, I forgot I was subscribed to you on RUclips, Ben! Great speaking voice and fascinating video! Reminds me a little of the stuff Big Clive Dot Com gets into.
great work mate! awesome to see you posting more electronics experiments :D The explanation on voltage multipliers was really interesting, would be cool to hear you talk about other types of circuits of interest, and how they work, low level electronics is a art form :D
Thank you very much for your kind words! I did receive your email so sorry for making the address hard to find (I'm sure it used to be on my RUclips profile but it might have vanished post-Google+ integration). I will make sure to reply properly over the weekend.
Hello! I wonder if you can help me. I'm doing a model making project whereby I need a string of about 30 LEDs to fade in and out in a pseudo-random effect. It's a model, so it has to be portable and therefore battery powered. But I only need the single affect rather than the variety you have wonderfully made. But as soon as I opened your video I noticed that the initial effect your Xmas tree is making is precisely the desired affect I require. If there's any assistance you can explain I'd greatly appreciate it. I did do Electronics A-level many years ago but since I have done Mechanical Engineering, so whilst I understand hardware and coding is a mystery to me. Thank you
Hello Aidan, thank you for your kind message. I think the circuit as presented in the download should work for your needs and could run from batteries, though I'm not sure how efficient it is as I only ever ran it from a mains supply. Are you familiar at all with programming AVR microcontrollers? If you only needed one particular animation sequence you could remove the push-button from the circuit and change line 20 in animation.c to the animation you desired, e.g. animation_type = ANIMATION_TYPE_CHASER; or animation_type = ANIMATION_TYPE_SIN_FAST; (I'm not sure which is the correct one off the top of my head, the various animation types are defined in animation.h). The code can be built and sent to the microcontroller using the WinAVR package, there's a Makefile included so once you've set up your programmer in \bin\avrdude.conf (change default_programmer to match your programmer) you can set the microcontroller's fuses with "make fuses" on the command line and rebuild and send the code with "make flash"
Awesome! I agree with Nathaniel, your voice is really suited to instructional video. Reminds me a lot of Fred Harris. He's not on TV so much anymore (not even sure if he is still with us), but I vividly remember him from watching the BBC computer related shows as a kid in the 80's. Keep it up, more videos!
I hope Fred's still with us, though I only caught up with him on video and later the Internet as I'm a bit too young to have seen him when Micro Live was originally broadcast. Cheers for the comment!
Awesome! I agree with Nathaniel, your voice is really suited to instructional video. Reminds me a lot of Fred Harris. He's not on TV so much anymore (not even sure if he is still with us), but I vividly remember him from watching the BBC computer related shows as a kid in the 80's. Keep it up, more videos!
I always love watching your videos. You somehow always have such a calming and professional sounding explanation for everything.
Ben! So good to see your still working on stuff :) Nice tree :D
Oh wow, I forgot I was subscribed to you on RUclips, Ben!
Great speaking voice and fascinating video! Reminds me a little of the stuff Big Clive Dot Com gets into.
great work mate! awesome to see you posting more electronics experiments :D
The explanation on voltage multipliers was really interesting, would be cool to hear you talk about other types of circuits of interest, and how they work, low level electronics is a art form :D
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A very nice and clever circuit. Your functional explanation is not only perfectly clear but also a pleasure to listen to. My compliments.
Thank you very much for your kind words! I did receive your email so sorry for making the address hard to find (I'm sure it used to be on my RUclips profile but it might have vanished post-Google+ integration). I will make sure to reply properly over the weekend.
You're most welcome. No worries, there's no hurry (it's the holiday season after all!). Have a great weekend!
That's funny, I independently did nearly the same thing yesterday.
Really? prove it!
Hello! I wonder if you can help me. I'm doing a model making project whereby I need a string of about 30 LEDs to fade in and out in a pseudo-random effect. It's a model, so it has to be portable and therefore battery powered. But I only need the single affect rather than the variety you have wonderfully made. But as soon as I opened your video I noticed that the initial effect your Xmas tree is making is precisely the desired affect I require. If there's any assistance you can explain I'd greatly appreciate it. I did do Electronics A-level many years ago but since I have done Mechanical Engineering, so whilst I understand hardware and coding is a mystery to me. Thank you
Hello Aidan, thank you for your kind message. I think the circuit as presented in the download should work for your needs and could run from batteries, though I'm not sure how efficient it is as I only ever ran it from a mains supply. Are you familiar at all with programming AVR microcontrollers? If you only needed one particular animation sequence you could remove the push-button from the circuit and change line 20 in animation.c to the animation you desired, e.g. animation_type = ANIMATION_TYPE_CHASER; or animation_type = ANIMATION_TYPE_SIN_FAST; (I'm not sure which is the correct one off the top of my head, the various animation types are defined in animation.h).
The code can be built and sent to the microcontroller using the WinAVR package, there's a Makefile included so once you've set up your programmer in \bin\avrdude.conf (change default_programmer to match your programmer) you can set the microcontroller's fuses with "make fuses" on the command line and rebuild and send the code with "make flash"
Awesome! I agree with Nathaniel, your voice is really suited to instructional video. Reminds me a lot of Fred Harris. He's not on TV so much anymore (not even sure if he is still with us), but I vividly remember him from watching the BBC computer related shows as a kid in the 80's. Keep it up, more videos!
I hope Fred's still with us, though I only caught up with him on video and later the Internet as I'm a bit too young to have seen him when Micro Live was originally broadcast. Cheers for the comment!