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Scott Wilkinson talks with Dan Wiggins, CTO of Starke Sound, about speakers, drivers, and amps.

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We go step by step and show how to make your own Steampunk Goggles.

These are the parts you'll need to order for our Steampunk Goggles Build

1. Vintage Steampunk Welding Goggles $7.99
2. GraceAngie 40Pcs Bronze Alloy Round Clock Watch gears $6.99
3. Magnifying Loupe $6.75
4. Arduino Nano (Atmega 328P) $2.19
5. WS2812 16-Bit RGB LED Ring ($3.17 x 2) $6.34
6. 30AWG Silicone Wire ($1.00 x 3) [Red, Black, Blue] $3.00
7. 600mah batteries + Charging harness $18.00

Total $51.26

You'll also need a 3D Printer that can print the following parts

• Steampunk Googles Frame (Right Side)
• Steampunk Goggles Frame (Left Side)
• Steampunk Goggles LED Holder (x2)

Tools and supplies

1. 3D Printer
2. Dremel (or other drilling tool)
3. Hot Glue Gun
4. Soldering Kit
5. Pliers, Screwdrivers
6. Heat Shrink Tubing (Black)

Instructions:

1. Disconnect one of the eye cups from the bridge strap
2. Drill a small rat hole at the base of each nose-cutout. (Big enough for 6 strands of 30awg silicone wire
3. Cut the following pieces of 30awg Silicone Wire
   • 2 x 6" Red
   • 1 x 8" Red
   • 2 x 6" Black
   • 1 x 8" Black
   • 1 x 6" White
   • 1 x 8" White
4. Strip and tin all your Silicone wires
5. Cut a 3/4" long piece of 1/4" Black Heat Shrink tubing
6. Run the 3, 8" lengths through the heat shrink tubing, then push the tubing & wires over the exposed bridge strap
7. Reconnect both cups to the bridge strap
8. Run the 3, 8" lengths into the left cup rat-hole.
9. Solder the following:
   • Black to any "GND" pad
   • Red to any "VCC" pad
   • White to "IN" pad
10. Run 1 x 6" black and 1 x 6" red into the left cup rat-hole
11. Solder the following:
    • Black to the remaining "GND" pad
    • Red to the remaining "VCC" pad
12. Solder the black and red wires to a battery connector from the charging harness
13. Pull back the slack wire from the left cup
14. Run the other side of the 8" wires into the rat-hole on the right cup.
15. Solder the following:
    • Black to any "GND" pad
    • Red to any "VCC" pad
    • White to the "OUT" pad
16. Run the remaining 6" black, red and white wires into the right-cup rat-hole.
17. Solder the following:
    • Black to the remaining "GND" pad
    • Red to the remaining "VCC" pad
    • White to the "In" pad
18. Solder the other ends of those wires to the Arduino:
    • Black to "GND"
    • Red to "VIN"
    • White to "D3"

Test Programming

We're using the "100 Lights" code example from Episode 173

• We need to change the Digital Pin to "3"
• We need to change the number of LEDs to "16"
• We can play with the brightness

You can find the code here.

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Phanteks Enthoo EVOLV review, an SSD from Sony, Oculus Rift PC Preorders, Eye Tracking technology in gaming, Rise of the Tomb Raider patched to version 1.0.610.1_64, and more!

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Hands-on reviews of Polygen, Earthviewer Beta, Tapet, and Perch.

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Twitter's earnings report confirms that user growth is a big problem, Google's self-driving cars could be considered an actual driver, our biggest tech gripes, and more.

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Aaron Newcomb joins Leo and Jeff to talk about his LED cube, Twitter's curent status, Google's book scanning, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg's India commitment, USB-C cable issues, and more!

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A new Windows Insider Ring? A developer ports an iOS app to Windows 10 in 5 minutes (wait for the "but"), Microsoft mistakenly caps some OneDrive users' storage early, PowerBI's publish to web feature, the latest mysterious Groove acquisition, do you need the Xbox One Elite Controller? And more!

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