Dad's DIY assortment becomes a serendipitous LED ornament
Channel: bornach
Date: 16/09/2017

My late father made his own DIY assortments by painstakingly de-soldering discrete electronic components from old circuit boards.  Nowadays you can buy a more complete assortment from Ebay for only a few dollars. Given the effort he must have put into doing this, I thought it would be a shame to just chuck them in a bin.  I tried using them to create an LED decoration based on a 5-LED chaser circuit found on the Internet. However I could not exactly reproduce the same component values, and so the resulting blinking pattern was quite unexpected.