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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 ...
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-...
The grounded baling wire needs to be coiled in a cone like fashion. With patience you can come out with a pretty good cone. I used a paper cone as a...
The Capacitors need to be soldered in the following places: *note: the capacitors shown are not the ones used in the actual board.
Only 1 100 ohm resistor is shown but the other 13 go in a row next to it. *Note: the resistor showed in the picture is not the one used in the actua...
The ATMEGA-168 chip goes in the other row in the PCB. *Note the chip shown in the picture is not the actual chip used in the board. The ATMEGA-168 ...
This step is pretty straightforward. The 16 MHZ crystal goes in the shown location. you might want to put a piece of electrical tape underneath the c...
I didnt have any spare ICSP header pins so this picture shows the placement on a blank PCB. Note: When putting on the ISCP headers, it is very impor...
The USB cable needs to have a standard Male A USB plug. Cut off the other end of the cable with wire cutters, strip the wire, remove the shielding. ...
Since the USB cable connection tends to be fragile, i found that it helps to clamp it in place using the piezo speaker and the ATMEGA-168 chip
Solder one of the 5 inch long hookup wires to the positive pin on the LED(this is usually the longer one) leave the shorter ground pin as it is. Eith...
I used a Coffee Tin Lid as a base but it can be anything really. Just make sure that it doesnt short out on the Solder Connections on the PCB or on th...
Each LEDs ground pin needs to be soldered up to the Wire Frame. Bend the pin into a little hook around the wire frame and use needle nose pliers/forc...
Attached is the file for the program I made: In order to program the ATMEGA-168 using the ICSP headers, you need an ICSP AVR programmer By using the...
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