{"id":2853,"date":"2010-02-23T08:31:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:03","slug":"quick-look-at-the-blinken-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/quick-look-at-the-blinken-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick look at the Blinken Button"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a quick look at the new Blinken Button<\/a> kit from Interactive Matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you want to try your hand at surface mount soldering, this is a fun project that can be completed in a couple hours with a decent soldering iron and a pair of tweezers.\u00a0 The instructions aren’t perfect (I had to short across the PCB pads for D1 and D2 to get my programmer to talk to the AVR, and at the moment you have to install Eclipse to compile the hex file) but I am confident that these minor issues will be fixed shortly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a quick look at the new Blinken Button kit from Interactive Matter. If you want to try your hand at surface mount soldering, this is a fun project that can be completed in a couple hours with a decent soldering iron and a pair of tweezers.\u00a0 The instructions aren’t perfect (I had to short … Continue reading Quick look at the Blinken Button<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,65,10],"tags":[326,110],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-kits","category-microcontrollers","tag-interactivematter","tag-open-source-hardware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-K1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1692,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/space-invaders-button\/","url_meta":{"origin":2853,"position":0},"title":"Space Invaders Button","author":"Jeff","date":"April 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Marcus at Interactive Matter made this awesome space invaders button, inspired by Alex Weber's 64pixels project.\u00a0 It uses almost entirely SMT components and an ATmega164P microcontroller. 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