This educational soldering kit is suitable for all kinds of applications such as model making and works with a 9 V battery (not included). You can control the flashing speed with two potentiometers.
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Multilingual DIY Kit (incl. 27 RGB LEDs + Raspberry Pi Pico)
Bring some engineering magic to your festive season with the Wordy LED Christmas Tree, a unique DIY electronics kit designed by Elektor. This beautifully engineered 3D Christmas tree combines eleven PCBs, a Raspberry Pi Pico, and 27 addressable RGB LEDs to illuminate Christmas greetings in seven languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Unlike ordinary LED trees, each word inside the tree has its own light chamber, creating a refined, softly glowing display without sound or flicker. The LEDs are fully WS2812-compatible and driven via the popular Adafruit NeoPixel library, making custom animations and color effects easy to create.
Perfect for makers, tinkerers, and festive electronics fans, this kit offers both an enjoyable build and a striking, conversation-worthy decoration. The Wordy Christmas Tree is your perfect holiday maker project!
Features
Multilingual greetings (7 languages) milled into the front panel
3D construction from 11 interlocking PCBs
Powered by Raspberry Pi Pico
27 individually addressable RGB LEDs (pre-mounted)
Smooth fade-in and fade-out animations
Fully programmable using the Arduino IDE
A 5-V power supply (with micro-USB connector) capable of ≥1 A is recommended for maximum brightness (not included)
Dimensions (H x W x D): 130 x 115 x 75 mm
Included
All required PCBs with LEDs and other SMD parts mounted
Raspberry Pi Pico (to be soldered & programmed by the user)
3-way pin header (to be soldered by the user)
3-way pin socket (to be soldered by the user)
4x Self-adhesive dome bumpers
Project Page
Elektor Labs
This desk lamp is ideal for your workplace. With the 5-inch 5D-lens, the finest work can be done. The lamp has 80 integrated LEDs.
Features
Lens size: 5 inch
Lens material: glass
Diopter: 5D
Light source: T5 22 W fluorescent energy-saving bulb (80pcs LED)
Standard mount: table base
Voltage: 220-240 V
Power: 22 W
Add colors to your projects with this collection of red, green, yellow, blue and white LEDs. They come with various current limiting resistors in order to protect the parts and control the brightness.Included
10 mm LEDs
1x red
1x green
1x yellow
1x blue
1x white
5 mm LEDs
5x red
5x green
5x yellow
5x blue
5x white
3 mm LEDs
5x red
5x green
5x yellow
5x blue
5x white
25x 330 Ω resistors
10x 1 kΩ resistors
10x 10 kΩ resistors
10x 100 kΩ resistors
10x 1 MΩ resistors
A Toolbox for Audio Lovers and Engineers
Without any ambition to reach scientific levels, this book aims to be a toolbox for both audio lovers and high-end equipment designers. The elementary theory presented is the bare minimum for readers to grasp the operation and practical use of electrical, electromagnetic, physics, and electronic operations available in the designers’ toolbox. Each tool is explained in a minimum of words and theory without needless coverage of underlying equations or figures.
The book chapters guide you through the process of designing quality amplifiers with vacuum tubes, from the very beginning, considering both technical and subjective requirements – in theory and practice.
The book is a compilation of the author’s notes used in his professional and educational career but was nevertheless primarily written as a result of true love for the audiophile hobby.
A Toolbox for Audio Lovers and Engineers
Without any ambition to reach scientific levels, this book aims to be a toolbox for both audio lovers and high-end equipment designers. The elementary theory presented is the bare minimum for readers to grasp the operation and practical use of electrical, electromagnetic, physics, and electronic operations available in the designers’ toolbox. Each tool is explained in a minimum of words and theory without needless coverage of underlying equations or figures.
The book chapters guide you through the process of designing quality amplifiers with vacuum tubes, from the very beginning, considering both technical and subjective requirements – in theory and practice.
The book is a compilation of the author’s notes used in his professional and educational career but was nevertheless primarily written as a result of true love for the audiophile hobby.
The Internet of Things is rapidly gaining interest, and that has fueled the development of the Edison. A tiny computer, the size of a postage stamp, with a lot of power and built-in wireless communication capabilities.
In this eBook we will help you get up-to-speed with the Edison, by installing the software both on the Edison as well as on your Windows PC. We will use the Edison Arduino break-out board because it is easy to work with. We will discuss Linux, Arduino C++ and Python, and show examples of how the Edison can interface with other hardware. We will use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to set up wireless connections, and show you a trick to program sketches over Wi-Fi.
Once you have completed this book your Edison will be up and running with the latest software version, and you will have sufficient knowledge of both hardware and software to start making your own applications. You will even be able to program the Edison over USB and wireless both in Arduino C++ and Python.
This is not a projects eBook, but a toolbox that will allow you to explore the wonderful world of the Intel Edison!
The single backlit button is a simple mechanical switch that comes with an LED inside. When you press the button, the circuit is completed, driving your pin high or low. Use the embedded LED to make a glowing power icon, logo , or whatever suits your fancy.
Features
Press durability: Up to 10,000 times pressing under 5lbf (22.24 N)
LED Voltage: 5 V
Component: 2" x 3" Individual (5,08 x 7,62 cm)
Button Size: 1" radius circle (2,54 cm)
Scrolling text display with eight 8 x 8 LED dot matrix displays (512 LEDs in total). Built around an ESP-12F Wi-Fi module (ESP8266-based) programmed in the Arduino IDE. ESP8266 web server allows control of displayed text, scroll delay and brightness with a mobile phone or other Wi-Fi-connected (portable) device. Features 10 MHz Serial Interface Individual LED Segment Control Decode/No-Decode Digit Selection 150 µA Low-Power Shutdown (Data Retained) Digital and Analog Brightness Control Display Blanked on Power-Up Drive Common-Cathode LED Display Slew-Rate Limited Segment Drivers for Lower EMI (MAX7221) SPI, QSPI, MICROWIRE Serial Interface (MAX7221) 24-Pin DIP and SO Packages
This bundle is all about designing projects based on the 555 timer IC. The book features over 45 fully tested and documented projects. Together with the kit, which contains more than 130 through-hole components, you can build all the projects described on a breadboard. The setup also makes it easy to modify and experiment with the projects.
Over 45 Builds for the Legendary 555 Chip (and the 556, 558)
Some of the projects in the book are:
Alternately Flashing Two LEDs
Changing LED Flashing Rate
Touch Sensor On/Off Switch
Switch On/Off Delay
Light-Dependent Sound
Dark/Light Switch
Tone Burst Generator
Long Duration Timer
Chasing LEDs
LED Roulette Game
Traffic Lights
Continuity Tester
Electronic Lock
Switch Contact Debouncing
Toy Electronic Organ
Multiple Sensor Alarm System
Metronome
Voltage Multipliers
Electronic Dice
7-Segment Display Counter
Motor Control
7-Segment Display Dice
Electronic Siren
Various Other Projects
Kit Contents
Resistors
1x 15 kΩ
1x 68 kΩ
2x 47 kΩ
1x 82 kΩ
2x 820 Ω
1x 8.2 kΩ
3x 10 kΩ
1x 1.8 kΩ
1x 6.8 kΩ
14x 2.2 kΩ
10x 680 Ω
1x 27 kΩ
1x 5.6 kΩ
1x 560 kΩ
1x 4.7 kΩ
1x 3.3 kΩ
3x 33 kΩ
1x 36 kΩ
2x 100 kΩ
5x 1 kΩ
1x 3.9 kΩ
2x 56 kΩ
2x 12 kΩ
1x 10 kΩ potentiometer
1x 1 MΩ potentiometer
2x 50 kΩ potentiometer
3x 20 kΩ potentiometer
1x 10 kΩ potentiometer
1x 10 kΩ potentiometer
1x 50 kΩ potentiometer
1x 100 kΩ potentiometer
1x 50 kΩ potentiometer
Capacitors
1x 0.33 μF
1x 1 μF
1x 10 nF
1x 22 nF
1x 47 nF
1x 100 nF
1x 10 μF electrolytic
1x 33 μF electrolytic
2x 100 μF electrolytic
LEDs
10x 5 mm red LED
10x 3 mm red LED
3x 3 mm yellow LED
3x 3 mm green LED
1x Common-cathode 7-segment LED
Semiconductors
3x 555 timer
1x CD4017 counter
1x CD4026 counter
1x CD4011 NAND gate
4x 1N4148 diode
1x IRFZ46N MOSFET
1x Thermistor
1x Light dependent resistor (LDR)
Miscellaneous
1x Passive buzzer
1x Active buzzer
1x SG90 servo
1x 8 Ω mini loudspeaker
1x 9 V DC brushed motor
1x 5 V relay
1x 9 V battery clip
7x Pushbutton switches
1x Breadboard
1x Breadboard jumper wires
High-quality ABS construction
Removable side panels and lid for easy access to GPIO, camera and display connectors
Light pipes for power and activity LEDs
Extraordinarily handsome
Colour: black/grey
Learn to program displays and GUIs with Python
This book is about Raspberry Pi 4 display projects. The book starts by explaining how to install the latest Raspbian operating system on an SD card, and how to configure and use the GPIO ports.
The core of the book explains the following topics in simple terms with fully tested and working example projects:
Simple LED projects
Bar graph LED projects
Matrix LED projects
Bitmap LED projects
LED strips
LCDs
OLED displays
E-paper displays
TFT displays
7-inch touch screen
GUI Programming with Tkinder
One unique feature of this book is that it covers almost all types of display that readers will need to use in their Raspberry Pi based projects. The operation of each project is fully given, including block diagrams, circuit diagrams, and commented full program listings. It is therefore an easy task to convert the given projects to run on other popular platforms, such as Arduino or PIC microcontrollers.
Python program listings of all Raspberry Pi projects developed in this book are available for download at Elektor.com. Readers can use these programs in their projects. Alternatively, they can modify the programs to suit their applications.