Saturday, August 22, 2020

Making A Two-Color LED Blinking With NE555

A LED blinking could be a silly stuff, but it's a good beginning for any electronic hobbyists to start with, circuit designing, PCB soldering and testing. 

Making A Two-Color LED Blinking With NE555
A fully tested board I made for high school students class.



Making A Two-Color LED Blinking With NE555
Soldering Side coated with clear acrylic paint

As an electronics technical teacher, I made a LED blinking board with a dual-color LED for my high school students to play with. I removed many big dual-color LED from an old-school gaming box. They last at least 15 years old, but they still work well.

Making A Two-Color LED Blinking With NE555
Many dual-color Red Green LED I removed from an old-school gaming console

I have drawn a circuit and making a simulation in Proteus 8, before the designing and making a physical PCB.



Making A Two-Color LED Blinking With NE555
Schematic Diagram

A capacitor C2 of 47 micro Farads and a POT RV1 of 10 kOhm are the component of adjusting the frequency of the oscillator. C2 is fixed, thus RV1 adjust the frequency or the blinking rate of the LED.



Making A Two-Color LED Blinking With NE555
A Finished PCB Design



Making A Two-Color LED Blinking With NE555
Copper Circuit Pattern


Making A Two-Color LED Blinking With NE555
Component Silk



Making A Two-Color LED Blinking With NE555
A computer rendered 3D model of this design.

Click here to download the design file. 

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