Comments on: Aurora 48 Kit

By: Rakesh

Rakesh — Fri, 16 May 2014 00:52:41 +0000

I saw at the maker fair last year. Were your stuff in the shed or at your stall. My dad would not alowe me to get any thing.

By: Rakesh

Rakesh — Fri, 16 May 2014 00:51:19 +0000

Is the Aurora 48 better then the Aurora mini 18

By: Jack Marcinkowski

Jack Marcinkowski — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 09:25:46 +0000

I have solved the problem.
Faulty battery pack!!! Changed it for another and it is working perfectly, looks great! Especially in the dark.

I was just wondering if you could point me in the right direction for a Surface mount coin cell holder that will work with this Aurora?

Thanks, Jack

By: Jack Marcinkowski

Jack Marcinkowski — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 08:45:55 +0000

I don’t think it will be anything to do with the soldering as I used plenty on flux throughout the soldering, and also did it all underneath a mantis, but I will check over them all again underneath the mantis and see if I can spot anything. And I will check the battery pack first off like you said.

Thanks, Jack

By: The LED Artist

The LED Artist — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:56:18 +0000

Hello Jack,

Please check the battery pack, first. Make sure that the voltage is getting through to the connector.

Soldering problems are very hard to spot just by looking. I’d use a loupe to get a real close up look at the IC pins. When in doubt apply a good amount of liquid flux on the pins and reheat the joints. It’s also helpful to remove extra solder using solder wick. With SMD soldering less solder to get the job done is usually better.

Aki

By: Jack Marcinkowski

Jack Marcinkowski — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 16:14:14 +0000

Hi, I’ve just finished building the aurora 48 and hooked up a battery pack for 3 AA’s and pressed the switched and nothing.

No led’s are lighting up or anything, I’ve had a look over the board several times trying to see if I’ve done something wrong but I can not seem to find a fault,is there anything you can think of that I might be missing?

Thanks

By: Christopher Li

Christopher Li — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:51:22 +0000

How do you find the polarity of the led?

By: Christopher Li

Christopher Li — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:46:39 +0000

can you send me an instruction sheet?
I want to know how to assemble it

By: The LED Artist

The LED Artist — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:41:51 +0000

Hello David,

I will email you the source file. It’s great that you are teaching your kid technology already!

Aki

By: David Bailey

David Bailey — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:39:46 +0000

Hi Aki,

Met you at Maker Faire last weekend, where I bought one of these with my 8-year-old son who was so interested in learning to program it.

We’ve ordered a PICkit and I’ve set up MPLAB X and downloaded your .hex, and in poking around I found your source code for the Aurora 9×18 so I have some idea how you code these things. But I’d *love* if you could point me to your source code for this particular Aurora, so that we can dive right in.

I haven’t done assembly in a couple decades so this should be fun. If you’re willing to share the source, it would make a huge difference in being able to make progress fast enough to keep the interest of an 8-year-old!

Thanks.