Have you tried your hand at circuit sculpture yet? Well, if you were waiting for the ideal first project with a great build video to go along with it, keep reading. [4dcircuitry]’s 555-based flashing circuit sculpture ticks all the go-for-it boxen for us — the component list is short, the final circuit looks cool, and well, there are blinkenlights.
Of course, it’s not quite a zero-entry project. Although [4dcircuitry] makes it look oh-so easy build it in the video below, they are using 1206 components and an SOIC-packaged 555 timer here. On the other hand, they start by smartly laying everything out on double-stick tape before applying flux and soldering. Then when it’s time to run the wires that no one wants to see, [4dcircuitry] carefully tweezers it from the tape and flips it over, re-using the tape do solder up the back side.
Don’t have the patience to solder 1206? All component sizes are beautiful, as evidenced by this amazing circuit sculpture clock.
The secret sauce is…
Double stick tape!
Great idea!
>solder up the backside
I don’t think this circuit sculpture business is for me. Nice project and write-up, though.
B^)
It doesn’t look like 1206 components, I only see less than 10, but I’ll take your word for it.
Soldering over 1000 components does sound like a staggering amount of work.
I’m not sure whether you’re serious or not, but 1206 is the size of the SMD components (https://i.stack.imgur.com/uVtVh.png).
The rest of the world lives in Metric!
I had no clue there were imperial SMD sizes before I went online to look up a size chart for my comment haha
Is this a joke i didn’t get or are you not familiar with SMD? 1206 is a size for those components, like 0805 or 0603.
While you were at it, you could have explained those numbers relate to the dimensions of the components.
A chart is found here:
https://www.protoexpress.com/kb/different-smd-component-package-sizes/
Hello!
1206 components are a size in tenths of a millimeter, 1.2 x 0.6mm.
and why do they need 555 timers?
Because we’re on hacka555aday.com!
The small black plastic-bodied thing has five hundred fifty five components in it so that’s the bulk of it. It’s just hidden on the back with a bunch of little wires like the article states. That’s what the sticky tape was for.
You mesn the breadbiard?
An interesting scheme, I tried to make a similar one only with other flasher colors.