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Lantern

Two paper festival lanterns, my first soldering iron, and a slow slide from nicer lights to designing a real circuit board.

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The lantern's orange 3D-printed enclosure on a blue work mat, USB-C port on the near end, LED power and data wires running out to JST connectors.

The build, start to finish

  1. Addressable LED strands glowing green and cyan in a dim room, wired to a small microcontroller on a breadboard.

    Chapter 1

    All I wanted was nicer lights

    Two paper festival lanterns came with sad little battery candles. Replacing them turned into my first real electronics project, and somehow it ended with a circuit board at a factory.

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