Suppose that you wanted to Playa-proof an Arduino and some LEDs…
Originally shared by Reed Morse
Photos and tips for making rugged electronics.
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sweet! key details i’ll include in my LED stickman suits.
My favourite resource for this, “What Your Shipment of Fail May Arrive In”: http://wiki.orbswarm.com/index.php?title=Building_Electronics_and_Robots_for_the_Desert
Wow, that’s a great page right there. Thanks!
It’s pretty brilliant. I’m a convert to the church of E6000, it’s great stuff. “Hot melt glue does exactly that.”
That line reminds me of warnings about what can go wrong with a program and how hard it can be to debug when things go completely off the rails: “Constants aren’t. Variables won’t.”
Also, BTDT: “Make it easy enough a chimp could figure it out, because that chimp is likely to be you.” I wound up playing Apollo-13-power-up-sequence-Tetris with my solar-boombox-cooler (“LL Cooler J”) http://imgur.com/r3D9vsI when the low-voltage-disconnect circuit in the charge controller kicked in and I had to debug this: http://imgur.com/BuaRo5N, except the wires were all color coded “playa-dust-beige”.
Happy ending: miraculously, I had had the forethought to put the 300W subwoofer / power amp on a separate breaker, and with that out of the loop, I could power up the rest of the system just fine. Luckily, playing recorded birdsong doesn’t require much bass response …
Also, @Daniel_Garcia goes to the same church you do: E6000.
(“Our Lady Of Perpetual Adhesion”?)