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This kit is an updated take on the traditional hanukkiyah, the nine-armed Hanukkah candelabrum. Two candles are lit on the first night of Hanukkah (one "real" candle plus the lighter candle, or shamash), three on the second night, right up to nine on the eighth night.
The LED Menorah works pretty much the same way, but uses less wax. When you turn it on, it displays the correct configuration of LED "candles" for a given night of Hanukkah. Each time you press the button (or switch it off and back on), it displays one more light (unless it showed all nine last time, in which case it goes back to two). The LEDs are lit up in the traditional sequence, with a gentle fade.
This kit is very easy to build, and includes a preprogrammed microcontroller, battery holder, nine ultrabright, 10mm LEDs, an alignment guide for the LEDs, and a laser-cut acrylic stand. Once you've built it, you'll have an elegant little LED menorah, ready for the season.
A few different configurations are available. The normal version comes with your choice of two different styles of ultrabright yellow LEDs with diffused lenses: 3mm (tiny), or 10mm (huge).
Any of these versions can be built with the shamash in the center or on the side (your choice) and the LEDs can be mounted flush to the circuit board or up to 1cm above it.
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Features
- Basic electronic soldering skill is required, and you provide standard soldering tools: a soldering iron and solder, and small "flush" wire clippers. No additional knowledge of electronics is presumed or required -- and no programming is required either!
- Easy "through-hole" construction ("No surface-mount nothin' nowhere!").
- Clear, full-color printed instructions are provided with the kit.
- This is an open-source project, designed to be hackable.
- This kits is RoHS compliant (lead free).
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