This is what happens when you let an engineer overcomplicate a problem. We wanted to give students 5 minutes per step during soldering class. So? We made a 5 minute digital timer. Push the button. The LED slowly blinks, getting faster and faster, until at 5 minutes, it’s nearly solid.
We no longer have kits, but do have some pre-assembled with battery.
SMTtimer Assembled $5ea/w battery:
CR1221 Batteries $2/5:
By Charley Jones, PMP
Aka Dataman 8/2012
Blinky Surface Mount
We miniaturized some some of the basic circuitry of SMTcylon and came up with BlinkyBall. Just 14mm square. It’s a motion activated ball, multi color, with 4 integrated programs: short, medium, long, and sleep. Drives cates nuts!
BlinkyBall is just 5$ as a kit, or 7$ assembled. Each comes with a battery. Spare batteries are CR1221 and available at your local drug store, or here 5/2$. Due to current TSA rules, batteries must be shipped by ground.
SMTblinkyBall Kit $5ea/w battery:
SMTblinkyBall Assembled $7ea/w battery:
CR1221 Batteries $2/5:
Blinky Surface Mount
A bright package, in a tiny but expandable footprint. I had a request to design an expandable LED light strip, and this is the result. SMTLightBoards can be strung together in series to make much larger arrays.
Light Board takes a standard 9v Battery, not included.
SMTlightBoard Kit $5ea/no battery:
SMTlightBoard Assembled $7ea/no battery:
SMTLightBoardsdesigned by Charley Jones, PMP
aka Dataman for SMTBoards.Com
7/2010
Blinky Surface Mount
While working on the SMTTester,
I realized that a tiny blinky led would be really cool.
Turns out the cheapest way to make an SMTBlinky,
Was to use a conventional blinking LED.
SMTblinky Kit $5ea/w battery:
SMTblinky Assembled $7ea/w battery:
CR1221 Batteries $2/5:
SMTBlinky designed by Charley Jones, PMP
aka Dataman
For SMTBoards.Com
4/2011
Blinky Surface Mount
While designing SMTBoards.Com, I needed to test SMT LEDs. My solution is the SMTTester, able to test 1210, 0805, and 0603 SMT LEDs. I added the cabability to easily change out the resistor and test standard LEDs as well.
SMTtester Kit $5ea/w battery:
SMTtester Assembled $7ea/w battery:
CR1221 Batteries $2/5:
SMTTester designed by Charley Jones, PMP
aka Dataman
For SMTBoards.Com
3/2011
Surface Mount Tools
While designing SMTBoards.Com, I decided that all CPUs would be preprogrammed in my kits. To do this, I needed some way of programming SMT CPUs, without soldering them in first. My solution is the SMTTiny13ISP, it adds a very temporary ISP port to a Tiny13, Allowing a left handed program upload. (As we shall see.)
Tiny13isp requires an Atmel programmer, like the USB Tiny, not included.
SMTtiny13isp Kit $5ea:
SMTtiny13isp Assembled $7ea:
SMTTiny13ISP designed by Charley Jones, PMP
aka Dataman
For SMTBoards.Com
3/2010
Surface Mount Through Hole Tools
SMTcylon is based on prior work performed by Dale Wheat under the product name tinyCylon. Mr. Wheat released tinyCylon as Open Source, and hence I chose to produce this project in an SMT Version.
Original information on this kit can be found at: http://dalewheat.com/tinycylon/
SMTcylon Kit $5/w battery:
SMTcylon Assembled $7/w battery:
CR1221 Batteries $2/5:
SMTCylon designed by Charley Jones, PMP
aka Dataman
For SMTBoards.Com
3/2010
Blinky Surface Mount
