{"id":3438,"date":"2013-12-29T10:01:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/led-cyr-wheel-v1-problems\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:36:25","slug":"led-cyr-wheel-v1-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/led-cyr-wheel-v1-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"LED Cyr Wheel v1 Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>Some of the problems with my original LED cyr wheel:<\/p>\n<p>1. <b>LEDs are dying<\/b>, from me stepping on them. I took one of the bad sections apart, and it seems to be because some solder connections break (such as for the resistor). I can solder them back together, but it is not worth the time to reskin\/glue it. I need to figure out a better way to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can see a resistor that fell off when I removed the protective skin. I think some hard epoxy on plain bare LED strips might &#8220;cement&#8221; them in place really well. Or some flexible silicon glue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0604.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0604-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_0604.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The strip above lost the ability to do blue on the 3 set of LEDs. The single color strips are pretty durable..but I&#8217;ve broken *a lot* of them this way:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0600-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_0600.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. <b>Gluing the PVC<\/b> on doesn&#8217;t work so well. The PVC doesn&#8217;t feel perfectly round in your hand, and it is harder to slip through.<\/p>\n<p>3. <b>The Arduino &#8220;reboots&#8221; if I hit the wheel hard.<\/b> I finally figured out what causes this. My battery pack is made up of 8 rechargeable AA&#8217;s connected in series to give 9.6v (1.2v for a NiMH cell times 8). If I jerk the pack hard the spring compresses in the holder and breaks the connection on a cell, causing the Arduino to loose power. A capacitor might smooth this problem out, but the real solution is going to be a different battery pack that is permanently put together (i.e.: LiPo). I found some cells on Hobby King that should hopefully work, be more powerful, and lighter!<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0606.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0606-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_0606.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>4. The Arduino takes a long time to boot.<\/b> I just need to remove the boot loader, which waits a bit before starting the Sketch\/Program. I ordered a hardware programmer to do this.<\/p>\n<p>5. <b>The interconnects<\/b> between wheels suck. Yeah, I couldn&#8217;t find any locally when I made the wheel. I ordered some better ones from Mouser yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>6. The <b>cyr wheel inserts<\/b> are tapped wrong; I tapped them sort of inline with the center of the wheel\u2026which is where I want the LEDs! The next wheel I do I&#8217;m going to tap them completely on the side of the wheel (and not on the inside diameter where I stand).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the problems with my original LED cyr wheel: 1. LEDs are dying, from me stepping on them. I took one of the bad sections apart, and it seems to be because some solder&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/led-cyr-wheel-v1-problems\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circus-and-silk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_0604.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5412,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/5412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}