Ok so I had origionally intended to cram the electronics into the centre of the carousel but once I took into account the limited ways I had of fabricating them I decided to make a base with enough room instead. So I broke out the wallpaper steamer and bent another circle out of wood
Again I probably should have made it thinner first.
The electronics mostly consist of the Arduino uno, shift registers and transistor array drivers which I wont bore you with the details of but they where all soldered to the boards like so:
And again I ended up with a mess of wiring to sort out to feed the lights, motor and music
This picture shows a stage where I had intended to make the carousel battery operated but that was ditched in the end for an external power pack that plugs into the carousel due to the power requirements of everything.
Again I probably should have made it thinner first.
The electronics mostly consist of the Arduino uno, shift registers and transistor array drivers which I wont bore you with the details of but they where all soldered to the boards like so:
And again I ended up with a mess of wiring to sort out to feed the lights, motor and music
This picture shows a stage where I had intended to make the carousel battery operated but that was ditched in the end for an external power pack that plugs into the carousel due to the power requirements of everything.