{"id":432,"date":"2011-10-08T15:18:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T05:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l8ter.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2011-10-08T20:45:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T11:15:29","slug":"adafruit-electric-halloween-contest-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l8ter.com\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Adafruit Electric Halloween Contest Entry."},"content":{"rendered":"

Adafruit.com<\/a> had a design an electric\u00a0Halloween\u00a0graphic contest. I wanted to make something cool and unique. I then came to the crazy idea of making a logo that could actually be etched onto a PCB board and be used.<\/p>\n

I first had to decide on a schematic, remembering my childhood I remember making a simple transistor based flashing unit. After some\u00a0searching\u00a0I found the exact schematic I was thinking about:<\/p>\n

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\nThis was almost exactly what i had in mind, but I thought I could integrate a Trimpot into the mix, to not only make the item more fun but to give it a little bit more complexity. So here is the schematic & part list i ended up using:<\/p>\n

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This circuit will run fine with\u00a0anything\u00a0from 9 – 12 volt. Here is the prototype breadboard setup of the above circuit:<\/p>\n\n\n

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