18 Dec 2011

Fireworks!

Not much time left until it is Silvester. The remote controlled fireworks launcher is in prototyping stage. I got the first PCB layout together.

The pcb files are created with an open source program called pcb (free as in free code and free of charge) which should compile on nearly all UNIX like operating systems (incuding, osx, cygwin or mingw for windows).

The pcb application is also able to generate gerber files which are included in the pcb files download.

Some alpha code (written in C)  is available to be run on an Arduino Pro Min 5V.

This project builds on the knowledge gathered from 8 bit shift registers and Arduino in general.

Special thanks goes to Sämi for all his valuable input.

Circuit



Front side



Back side