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Aurora 9×18 Kit Finally Available

*** Aurora 9×18 was available as a kit, but kits had been completely sold out. I’m keeping this post only as a record. The new & improved version is in the works. Please stay tuned. ***

The price for the kit is $179 and shipping is $5 for continental US. PCB alone is not available. This is to reduce the possibilities of malfunction or failure due to the part variance.

(international shipping is $13.50 except Canada which is $11.50)

The payments are accepted via PayPal (send to aki@theledart.com).

This is one-time only offering and the quantity is very limited.

You can find more details here.

Aurora 9 bar Kit

*** Sorry Aurora 9 bar Kit/PCB are discontinued. Please consider Aurora 12 bar instead. ***

All parts except Molex connectors and power supply are included. (See the picture for the contents.)

Aurora 9 bar kit contents
* The PIC microcontroller (PIC24F08KA101) is not pre-programmed. You need your own programmer (such as PICKit) to program the PIC microcontroller.

Please view my Instructable for the detailed information on Aurora 9 bar.

Aurora 9 bar

Since the introduction of Aurora 9×18, I received many requests for the kits and PCBs. I’m still quite undecided about making those available for a few reasons. However I really want other LED lovers (ok that sounds too much :) to be able to build one themselves.

So I came up with Aurora 9 bar. It’s a bare essential version of Aurora 9×18. In fact the circuit is almost exactly the same (with a lot less number of LEDs of course). Even the firmware is essentially the same. So it has the same super smooth color fades as Aurora 9×18.

You can now build Aurora 9 bar yourself! Details are at Instructables:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Aurora-9-bar-The-Essence-of-Aurora/

Aurora 9×18 auction on eBay closing tonight!

Please check it out if you haven’t already.

Aurora 9×18 on eBay

Aurora 9×18 auction has just started on eBay.

If you are interested, here is my auction.

(http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120750388231)

Thank you very much!

Thank you so much – I won the LED contest!

Big thanks to all of you! After the long agonizing wait, the winners were announced. I won the Instructable LED contest!!!

http://www.instructables.com/contest/led2011/?show=WINNERS

Thank you so much!

The voting ended

Thank you very much for those who voted for me.
The voting ended for the LED contest, and now awaiting for the results. Winners will be announced on Monday…

Aurora 9×18 on Instructables

Aurora 9×18 is now on Instructables! Which means you can learn how to build one of those yourself!

http://www.instructables.com/id/Aurora-9×18-RGB-LED-art/

Aurora 9×18 Teaser Video

I thought it’s time for me to start putting some effort in creating better presentation of the work I do. Here are two versions of video that showcase Aurora 9×18.