Ornament

After being shown this Tweet of an awesome 4-layer PCB snowflake ornament, I knew I had to create something similar.

Using self-contained slow fading RGB LEDs, a couple of AAA batteries and a switch, these snowflakes are quite mesmerising. I designed a 2-layer board to keep costs down and used the polar coordinate system in Altium which is always great fun. Using a cheap Chinese PCB service meant I could get these turned super quick and made into kits for people to solder.

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