Teeces Set Completed!

Last night when I got home from work I sat down and soldered the rest of my LEDs into place. Once I put all the chips in place and tested it out I ran into the first snag in my project. One of my green LEDs was constantly on, and it seemed to be at a higher intensity than the rest of them. After talking with JoyMonkey I learned that this is how the LEDs will behave if they are put in backwards. Putting one out of over 250 LEDs in backwards isn't too big of a deal, however I'm apparently terrible at removing solder.

I left the boards alone and went and saw Ironman 3 and got back to work when I got home. I expected to spend about 15-20 minutes removing the LED and putting it back in the right way around, but that's not at all what happened. >.< An hour and a half later I went to bed rather frustrated. I had not only removed the LED, but I had broken a second in the process. On top of that I was struggling to get a new LED in to replace the one I got out and I still couldn't get the second broken LED out. 

The next morning I was able to get the new LED in place before heading to work, so that brightened my mood a bit. =D I spoke to JoyMonkey again about removing the broken LED and he gave me the great advice of cutting the broken LED in half so that I could remove one lead from the solder at a time.  With that advice I was able to finish up my RLD rather quickly. The only issue remaining with that board is that I have one too many green LEDs and one missing red LED. I didn't order any spare red ones, but thankfully JoyMonkey had sent a few extra green ones. I don't think anyone will be able to tell though, so no harm done. 

In the pictures below you might be able to tell that the green in my PSI is a bit dim. All of the other 5mm I had on hand when I started seem to be pretty great for this project, but those appear to be junk to me. I ordered them all on eBay in the same auction over two years ago so I can't even tell you who I got them from. I'd stick to the ones people recommend if you plan on putting this together though =D

You'll also notice here that my PSI's are in new housings. I'll get picture of these in the future, but they're mcwhlr budget rubber PSI housings. They're pretty awesome!

Here's a short video of them running. 

Next up I'll be working on putting these into my Padawan system. From what I've read it's really just connecting one pin from the Uno to one pin on the Micro, and having a shared ground. I'll test this soon.