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USB powered LED christmas tree with Sound

USB powered LED christmas tree with Sound


Here is the finished product.

The Christmas tree is made with an arduino ATMEGA-168 chip.

I used it as a belated christmas gift for someone in a gift exchange.

First instructable so please take it easy on me should i do something blaringly wrong.

Attatched are the scematic and the PCB Layout in PDF and EAGLE format.

Also attatched is the program i used for the ATMEGA-168



board-layout.pdf(612x792) 36 KB
schematic.pdf(792x612) 16 KB
 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
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Here are the Materials I used for the tree:

Stiff Stainless Steel Baling Wire
14 cut and stripped 5" segments of hookup wire (red)
An Arduino ATMEGA-168 Chip
A specified PCB (file attatched)
An old USB Cord
A Piezo Speaker
14 100 ohm Resistors
2 22pF Capacitors
1 100nF Capacitor
7 Red LEDs (diffused)
6 Green LEDs (diffused)
1 Amber LED (diffused)
A 16MHZ crystal oscillator
2 3 pin ICSP (in-circuit serial programming) headers      *six pins total
A Lid to an old can or tin.
Electrical Tape
Solder
Soldering Iron
Wire Cutters
Wire Strippers
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4 comments
Dec 20, 2011. 8:36 PMchipper35 says:
Lots of photos! Good show!!
Dec 7, 2010. 12:03 PMarduino man says:
I can't get the code.

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