![]() On the sunny afternoon of Sunday, April 29, 2012, Eleanor, Abby, and a friend, all age 9, walked half a mile to The Chilly Cow for ice cream, and then back again (with a stop at the library, of course) without adult supervision or accompaniment. Ice cream no longer requires adult supervision Posted: Ap| Author: kriegsman | Filed under: DIY, Explorations, That Totally Worked | Tags: growing up, ice cream, parenting, walk, walking | Leave a comment ![]() Then Eleanor secured each hoop in place at the right height with duct tape.Īnd presto! A hoop skirt made with real hoops! (and duct tape, of course!) From there, we hung each hoop with repositionable blue painters tape, and balanced each one until it was level. ![]() We started construction from the waist down, with a nylon web belt with a parachute snap buckle. The smallest hula hoop became the bottom (largest) hoop for the skirt the other two had to be dramatically resized smaller (via pliers, dremel, duct tape). We picked up a used dress at The Garment District (our local vintage/costume/cheapo clothing mecca), a set of three hula-hoops, and some leopard-print duct tape. Naturally, we decided to take the DIY route! And, we pondered, what goes into a hoop skirt? HOOPS, obviously! ![]() Part of what she planned was a ‘hoop skirt’, but as you can imagine no commercially available hoop skirt met her exacting standards of design and quality - and also my exacting budgetary requirements. Hoop skirt - made with real hoops! Posted: Octo| Author: kriegsman | Filed under: Art, Creations, DIY, Explorations, How-to, That Totally Worked | Tags: costume, costuming, dress, duct tape, eak, eleanor, hoop, hoop skirt, hula hoops, skirt | Leave a commentĮleanor and I spent this weekend working on her Halloween costume. With a little probing around, you can also find similar ‘hacks’ for other models of Arduino, e.g., the Uno, Leonardo, etc., but since power is handled differently on each board, you’ll have to figure it out differently for each board design. I’ve used this technique in probably six or eight Arduino Nano projects, and nothing’s caught fire (yet). By powering your LEDs from these direct-power traces (and thus directly from the USB power source), instead of through the Nano’s half-amp-max voltage regulator, you can drive up to about two Amps worth of LEDs, provided that you plug the Nano into a 2 Amp USB power adapter. Solder a wire (black, for ground) to this pin.Ĥ. A convenient companion GND connection can found on the center pin of the power regulator itself. Carefully solder a wire (red, for +5v) directly to the exposed component pin on the circuit board.ģ. The unfiltered, unregulated +5 signal from the USB port is available on the board near the base of the D2 pin. Flip the Nano over so you’re looking at the bottom side.Ģ. MODIFY, MISUSE, AND DESTROY YOUR ARDUINO AT YOUR OWN RISK !ġ. Basically, you can find the places on the Nano’s board where the raw USB power connections are exposed, and tap into them there. However, you can ‘tap’ the pre-voltage-regulator power traces on the Nano’s circuit board, and drive 2 Amps of LEDs (over 100) ‘through’ the Nano, and do it in a way that keeps your wiring simple. an iPad charger), the Nano’s little voltage regulator will overheat if you try to draw more than 0.5 Amps from the “+5V” pin on the Arduino. Even if you connect a 2 Amp USB power supply (e.g. The Arduino Nano provides up to 0.5 Amps of regulated +5v output, on it’s “+5V” pin, which can drive between 10-30 addressable LEDs, depending on your chosen brightness and animation patterns. If you see any ads when you visit this site, your browser and/or computer is sick.Running 2 Amps of LEDs through an Arduino Nano Posted: Febru| Author: kriegsman | Filed under: Coding, DIY, How-to, That Totally Worked | Tags: amps, arduino, blinky, fastled, hack, hacks, LED, LEDs, nano, power, USB | 2 Comments I've been told my last name is pronounced "Goggler" so just play along, okay? Otherwise "Goug' Blog" wouldn't rhyme. Follow this blog and receive notifications by email whenever there's a new post!
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