This is a diagram I made to explain to my wife the chronology of all the star trek movies and tv series.

It is appropriate here to illustrate the time warp that has been caused by this week's project.

After I milled and stuffed my first LED board, I realized both of the FABISP boards from weeks ago did not work. Both of those boards eventually met an untimely end. It wasn't until three ISP's later that I was able to program one and use it. However, I had not been able to (unbeknownst to me) install the ftdi drivers, so I was then unable (at first) to program the LED board. I spend most of the week doing the second assignment of the semester. I made several boards. Apparently, I'm an aweful solderer.

Me and Error 1. We're super tight.

Yikes! Invalid Device Signature. Shut up.

The traces for the board.

I took this code from the HLT wiki and then modified it to work for the pins I was using. The same code worked if I wrote DDRA = 128; PORTA = 128;

I chose a green LED. More on this later.

I took this code from the HLT wiki as well and modified it again to work with the pins I was using.

Off.

On.

Obviously, I chose a GREEN LED. And I thought maybe as a way to play with the vinyl cutter, I could make a ... LIGHT SABER.

Light Saber traces

I've wanted to do this for a long time.

For the light diffusing material, I decided to use a transluscent polypropelene.

The vinyl cutter worked for the diffuser, because I printed from AutoCAD. HOWEVER, in a devestating move, the logon for the ARCH fablab was not working and I was not able to use fabmodules to cut out a png.

Crappy light saber mockup pretender.