Recent content by Gigatrix

Hello, I have been getting into machining EDC spinning tops at collage out of the waste metals they throw away and just as a side project I wanna have the inception spinning top in my collection. I have found photos of half the plans but they are covered by the prop or out of the shot and the...

Thanks, I have all I need now. So much help all of you.

I'm sorry I am new here but Ill try that, thank you for the suggestion.

zapwizard I meant reset the solenoid with a spring but I'm taking that out the equation now. And you say I can run all the LED's off the shield and the static ones off the Arduino and the motor? And I am taking baby steps with the programming, doing the blinking one then a switched blinker and a...

Hi, I'm looking for some screen accurate boots for a Neo from the Matrix cos play and need to find the boots Keanu Reeves wares. Any suggestions? Gig

ok, well tbh I want to wire all this up to the Arduino and controlled by it. and I want to control with the code flexibly all the functions. things like the small motor, solenoid and 1mm LED' are an on off deal whilst the RGB servos need a bit more control (as you would imagine) and I can surly...

Thank you zapwizard for digging up all my old school physics and dusting them off and putting them nicely on a little display pedestal. It helps a lot. I don't need the stander micro LED's to be 100% brightness. more just they are there so I don't mind running them off the shield if that will...

So the LED's I linked just solder them to the copper rails I planned with a resistor on each and supply a 12-16 v current from Arduino and we should be good. I was thinking just solder the led's on the rails and resistor just after the battery pack so I only use 1 resistor but I shan't play with...

Hello, I have a bench project slowly gathering all the materials to start the build and I would like some wiring advice for some LED's. I have some (little) electronics experience but know the basics of circuit symbols and some other stuff but feel free to talk to me like I'm a novice. The...

So I have got them, a pack of 4 rgb boards and the board so ill play with my servos when they get here, sadly the led fiasco isn't over as I don't know how to wire them in and still need 7 white and 8 red 3mm standard LED'S for the forth channel.

I think this will work, if I get the go ahead from you ill get them all

so I would be looking at the neopixles as they come in more than just strip form. I am thinking this:https://www.adafruit.com/products/2226 what are your thoughts? as I understand it the servo shield only uses the command input of 2 pins and leaves the rest for led and other things. I am tempted...

Ok wow, sorry. yeh that is a lot to take in but I see what you are saying. I don't want to get the strips because they don't sit well in the hole but the dots on the neo site look good. ok so you know I'm famous for my sugestions but for the servos, https://www.adafruit.com/products/1411, this...

OOhh, I like that, an autographic. the scale wont be buggered by the perspective. I must say I cheated a bit and had a copy of the original files sent to me by the designer. I just have to scale them correctly and so far that's been a paperclip I stole from work.

thank you so much, where did you get them? just screen shots or measurements from plans or models?