So, I wanted to get into soldering, circuit boards, micro controllers, and all that super fun tech nerd stuff. So I went ahead and bought myself some supplies.

Then I got some soldering tools and started to get down and dirty with circuit boards. I haven’t soldered anything in a VERY long time, and this was my first excursion into soldering electronics. It actually went quite well. I only screwed up a few times, and each time it wasn’t something major or unfixable.

In the end I ended up with a working arduino board, and a prototyping shield to test out circuits before committing them.

Check out the full gallery of stuff here.

Also, the most FUN PART, is this video of me (finally) working out how to fade LEDs using the arduino. I created a little makeshift cube, with LEDs fading in different patterns to create a color shifter. It’s very purty. (it had to be super dark in the room so I could effectively pick up the color shift on camera)