0xchristmas

Summary

A special edition christmas arduino workshop. We'll be using a new very small arduino clone called ["Trinket"].
We can make a christmas star/tree with sound effects.
Ardillo did some research and collected a list of parts which can be bought for a fair price.

Who

research: Ardillo
Workshop: Fish_ && Ardillo

Christmas kit

The Trinket is one of the cheapest clone (unless you tinker around yourself).
We've made a DIY christmas kit which consists of the following:

Parts 0xchristmas

amount	what	price	url
1	trinket 5V Logic	€8,00	[floris.cc-trinket]
1	breadboard	€4,00	[floris.cc-breadboard]
1	USB - mini USB cable	€2,08	[Farnell-usb cable]
1	Piezo buzzer	€1,00	[Farnell-piezo buzzer]
1	Light Dependant Resistor	€0,77	[Farnell-LDR]
2	high power LED's	€0,60	[Farnell-LED's]
?	red/green LED's	€??	Randomdata's own supply
?	jumpers/cables/wire	€??	Randomdata's own supply
1	splitted shipping costs	€0,56	Farnell & Floris.cc shipping divided by amount of kits
	Total	€17,01	aproximitly €20

The url's of Farnell are without tax, our price is with 21% tax.

trinket HowTo

During the workshop we tell about arduino's and why they are awesome.
The Trinket is a little different but still easy to work with. It is important to know that your trinket is a 5V Logic version (not the 3.3V). This important when connecting your trinket to sensors, they have to be of the same voltage as your trinket.
Adafruit made a good tutorial on how to use this trinket.

• introduction: http://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-trinket/introduction
• tutorials: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1501#Learn
• adjusting Arduino IDE: http://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-trinket/setting-up-with-arduino-ide

0xchristmas workshop

So for making a Christmas tree/star with sound effects we made a guidance workshop where you are doing all the work and we are just helping.
For connecting everything together we need some jumper wires, there are a couple of ready-to-use cables available or you can make your own from some scrap electronics, especially solid core network cable works fine.

...more to come, still work in progress...

Components explained

trinket

source: [adafruit]
The Trinket is a smal microcomputer. It has a processor of the same family as the arduino The Trinket is designed by Adafruit. You can use a small computer like this for turn on LED's or make music with it. It's also possible to connect sensors to it, so you can for example monitor temperature.

breadbord

source: [floris.cc]
A breadboard is a nifty thing for experimenting with electronic circuits. You can easily make a circuit without soldering, as long as you don't tinker around with high frequency's (like wifi) a breadboard will succeed. The holes in a breadboard are arranged in such a way that they are connected in groups of five.
This way we can connect other parts to each other without having to solder, but just to put the contacts in a hole which is grouped to the part you want it connected to.

cable

source: [farnell]
Just an ordinary cable nothing more to say. One side has a USB connection for your laptop and the other side has te be connected on your trinket.

Resistor

no image yet

Light Dependant Resistor

source: [farnell]

Light Emitting Diode

source: [farnell]

Piezo buzzer

source: [farnell

...more to come, still work in progress...

What should it look like

For the christmastree look here: Tinkercad - project: 0xchristmastree
Image of breadboard with LED,s and piezo connected.

code

the arduino code for this project:

      /*
  Blink
  Turns on an LED on for one second, then off for one second, repeatedly.
 
  This example code is in the public domain.

  To upload to your Gemma or Trinket:
  1) Select the proper board from the Tools->Board Menu
  2) Select USBtinyISP from the Tools->Programmer
  3) Plug in the Gemma/Trinket, make sure you see the green LED lit
  4) For windows, install the USBtiny drivers
  5) Press the button on the Gemma/Trinket - verify you see
     the red LED pulse. This means it is ready to receive data
  6) Click the upload button above within 10 seconds
*/
 
int led = 1; // blink 'digital' pin 1 - AKA the built in red LED

// the setup routine runs once when you press reset:
void setup() {
  // initialize the digital pin as an output.
  pinMode(led, OUTPUT);

}

// the loop routine runs over and over again forever:
void loop() {
    digitalWrite(led, HIGH); 
    delay(1000);
    digitalWrite(led, LOW);
    delay(1000);
}
    

Pictures

• 
  adafruit
  trinket
• 
  floris.cc
  breadboard
• 
  Adafruit
  trinket with breadboard
• 
  farnell
  USB-mini Usb cable
• 
  farnell
  Light Dependant Resistor (LDR)
• 
  farnell
  Light Emitting Diode (LED)
• 
  farnell
  Piezo buzzer