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#251 TheLady

A ladybird soldering and display kit from The Boldport Club (Project #4).

Build

Notes

A fine specimen of Coccinellidae Boldportus, a new type of ladybird discovered in Bermondsey, London.

“The Lady” is Project #4 from The Boldport Club. It is a really simple circuit, and functionally nothing ground-breaking .. but that really isn’t the point. It is just a stunning bit of PCB design. Yes, this is more art than electronics!

Parts

Unboxing and Build

What a great box and packing…

kit01_box

kit02_unbox

kit03_parts

This is truely a beautiful PCB .. front and back:

kit04_pcb_lower

kit05_pcb_upper

All assembled..

kit06_assembled

kit07_deadbug

kit08_onglass

kit09_onbox

kit10_inthewild

kit11_inthewild

kit12_inthewild

Construction

Breadboard

Schematic

Build

Credits and References

About LEAP#251 BoldportPCB DesignBugs
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This page is a web-friendly rendering of my project notes shared in the LEAP GitHub repository.

LEAP is just my personal collection of projects, usually involving an Arduino or other microprocessor in one way or another. Some are full-blown projects, while many are trivial breadboard experiments, intended to learn and explore something interesting (IMHO!).

The projects are usually inspired by things found wild on the net, or ideas from the sources such as:

Feel free to borrow liberally, and if you spot any issues do let me know. See the individual projects for credits where due. There are even now a few projects contributed by others - send your own over in a pull request if you would also like to add to this collection.