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Today we cover some electronic basics and get you started with some of the tools you need and cover some easy LED setups!
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@matthuffaker4509 2 года назад

Thanks, Brian. Please add more. Looking for content around wiring and Arduino. Also, would love to learn how to make an interactive control or data panel utilizing a touch pad, or buttons with a video screen. Great stuff - keep 'em coming!

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Wonderful Matt, we will keep it rolling!

@GCubedProductions 2 года назад

👆🏻what he said. Please and thank you

@mrs5850 2 года назад

Brian, you are easily the most informative and enjoyable prop,geek,Star Wars channel on RU-vid. So we’ll presented and informative you actually bring joy to my sometimes long and tiresome days and I am always looking for that notification to go off. Please don’t change.

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you so much!!!

@TheAuldGaffer 2 года назад

Keep this content rolling? Yes! Mix in Arduino? Yes! Bring it on...

@blizatrex 2 года назад

Adding lights and sound is my biggest hurdle in my projects more of this please. easier and cheatier the better.

@CGRTist 2 года назад

These Geek-e-cation videos are a godsend! Great fusion of usable edutainment!

@cheawalker1 Год назад

Love your energy, you teach courses and keep everyone interested and feeling like they can do it. Thanks for representing positive humanity. 👍🏾

@danielmaxwell6676 2 года назад

I have been using LEDs since the mid 1980s. Your shoot from the hip approach is the best possible way to get someone that would have been scared actually using them. Love it and Love your videos.

@James-hj5ov 2 года назад

Great tutorial! A couple more tips: I leave a small blob of solder on the tip of my iron when I am done. This helps protect from oxidation while it is stored. Also, you sometimes get LEDs that don't have different length legs. Another way to identify the cathode (- side) is to look for a flat edge on the side of the LED.

@jaybird4610 2 года назад

Thanks for the lesson. Arduinos and led’s are really fun and inexpensive to play with. A few motion detectors added really adds life. Please continue with this series. Thanks again.

@madysalty5294 2 года назад

This kind of tutorials is exactly what i need, i'm planning on doing a Scifi, Star Wars/Gundam inspired room this year, and i have never done anything like this before, and even if it's exciting, it's also overwhelming for someone who never ever used all these tools and stuff !!

@keithanderson1916 2 года назад

Brain thanks for the simple tips. Your cheat code is the best advice ever. Keep building and growing your room.

@GeoFry3 2 года назад

Amusing someone in the room builder group was asking for just this. As someone who has gone through mechanical engineering school and had a ton of projects that required controllers, leds, servos, motors, actuators, the dirty secret in engineering is they don't teach you all that much. Sure it's great to be able to nail "engineering theory for $400 Bob", but practical application it does not. This kind of video is exactly how I got the basic knowledge I needed to get into the nuts and bolts of engineering...and get through the various projects during school. Listen to Brian, be brave, and dive on in.

@dadcrafted 2 года назад

Yes! And add more! I need to add elements like this to my projects desperately.

@jakemeyer8188 2 года назад

I have a suggestion, which may appear daunting at first for novice electro-nerds, but I think is an important step in greebly LED's: 555 timers. Get them LED's blinking without complicated and overpowered (for this application) microcontrollers. They can be quite simple once you use them, and knowing all the ins and outs isn't necessary for just getting some blinky-ness.

@lopaka76 2 года назад

My new free online LED instructor is a major Star wars geek. I took a solar panel installation class many years ago and the parallel and series wiring was a nice refresher. Looking forward to more videos. Even if I don't use them, hopefully I will, knowledge is fun.

@stormrodgers2613 2 года назад

Hell! Yes! This is what I've needed! Thank you, man! Please teach us all!

@LisaHarsh 2 года назад

Nice simple explanation. It’s one of the areas I overthink every time.

@davidbarnett3732 2 года назад

As much as you can impart, is as much as I would like to know. I suck at electrical components. Thanks for your time and knowledge.

@WhiteysWickedWorkshop 2 года назад

Great minds think alike. I am going to be starting a series about all of these things also. I think the group needs a lot of help so its up to guys (like us) who know how to teach them. Good job on the video, I am not judging you LOL I do the same thing. Most times I don't even think about it and just wire nut stuff together and keep moving along. Thanks for video!

@chrisclark4799 2 года назад

Interesting class. I await the next lesson.

@craiglundgren1685 2 года назад

As always Brian, you have answered some questions that I didn't know I had. Something I would like to see in the future would be an example of how to get my project from bread board to finished project. Thank you for what you do.

@critche95 2 года назад

Adam Savaged showed a cool way to connect wire, the "Heat Shrink Solder Sleeve" and all you need is a heat gun :)

@GarthShaner 2 года назад

I am very interested in this series! Grateful for your channel and your willingness to share!

@kaelyncoppinger1373 2 года назад

This is great! Please make it a series!

@brianw94 2 года назад

From 1 Brian to another, thanks for this video!

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you much!

@quixoticjedi942 2 года назад

I had to learn all this and more when I built my lightsabers. If I recall there are a few online resistor calculators out there to help you figure out what resistor works best for whatever LED, but the math is pretty simple once you understand Ohm's Law.

@OddViking 2 года назад

Such a solid video. I was afraid of lights in props three years ago, but I dove in and learned. It is as simple as you say for a basic setup. I use the online calculators for the resistors, but the pre-wired are just so easy to use. If I had found this video years ago, I would have broken my fear back then. Now I love adding lights to everything!

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you sir!!

@XanBos 2 года назад

Now this is informative! I would love to see more on the LED! How about a video on simple set up for blinking LEDs, in various patterns. I.e. chasing, random, unison. This is where I struggle to create projects with some pizazz!

@TerrainTronics 2 года назад

Hey, DC -- I feel a little bad hijacking Brian's comments here - but you asked for inputs on the EXACT stuff I work on. (chasing, randmon, unison etc). I have 2 projects I've done in the last year (Projects, meaning circuit boards for sale) that can do exactly some of the stuff you're looking for. Have a look at the TT Harlech Castle board and the Caernarfon Castle board. They both can drive LED's (either RGB strips, or individual LED's etc) and have example code for arduino that you modify with your pattern.

@ekij133 2 года назад

Blinking LEDs you have two choices. 1] You can buy LEDs that have an in-built blinking circuit that flash them at a fixed rate. This is the easiest but and cheapest but gives you the least control. 2] Wire the LEDs to some control circuit that turns the power to the LED on and off to make it blink. This control circuit could be a simple astable circuit or a microcontroller following a complex program.

@JosephDuVall 2 года назад

Excellent! Need more! MORE I say!

@arohralights6158 2 года назад

Please add all of it!! Just found your channel and I am very excited to watch all of your videos. Very creative, very genuine content, awesome video production and thorough. Exactly what I needed to get out of this rut I've been in. Thank you

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you! we sure will!

@edburdo 2 года назад

If you don't have it... MAKE: Electronics is awesome. Shows some great techniques, and teaches you several "what not to do"... starting with killing an LED. :)

@mlubecke 2 года назад

Love it ! Brian, you make everything fun. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

@Jasontbarton 2 года назад

These short style basic introduction videos are so helpful to me!!! A lot of times I have an idea, but I don't know enough information to start. I've dabbled with LEDs for our yard haunts, but now I'm about to start building my first spaceship bridge set. Your channel has been so helpful and inspiring over the years. Now I have enough knowledge to really feel like I can make this project pop! Thank you so much!!!

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you! Glad it was helpful! Good luck on your project!

@alexhetherington8028 2 года назад

Brian i feel inspired to make an arcade sign like the one in your shop to put on my bedroom wall next to my playstation. Thanks for flooding my brain with inspiration.

@fishingjedi315 2 года назад

Thanks man. Always love the finished product. But the geek a cation is my jam!

@calebb2134 Год назад

Omg the bilbo speech in there made me spit out my coffee 😂😂😂 hilarious add in

@TheSmugglersRoom Год назад

🤣 thank you

@petermerz2704 2 года назад

Good video Brian! That covered the basics very well. Electronics has been a hobby of mine since I was a teenager, so figuring out resistance is second nature to me. I light up most of the models I build. Keep up the good work. These videos are very informative to the uninitiated! Happy days and model on! 😎

@georgek2802 2 года назад

Love this! More content on LEDs and basic electronic stuff step by step would be highly appreciated. You did an awesome job breaking it down and explaining. Thank you 😄

@Joshua-ju5uc Год назад

I think I speak for everyone when I say THANK YOU was the knowledge and look forward to any future knowledge you drop on us. If I were to ask for any knowledge in LEDS it would be how to connect the Leds to an Arduino nano, using a button system to switch between light effects. THAT could be powered by either rechargeable lithium AA batteries or by plug with another switch. I've seen a few RU-vid videos where things similar to that is made but i could never understand why extra electronics were added. like a W130 hall sensor or cc/cv buck converters. I'm also trying to design a solar battery charger that looks like the Endor Shield generator from Return of the Jedi.

@ATAnders93 2 года назад

I’ve been SO SCARED to tackle lighting panels. I’d love a video on making a panel where the acrylic squares flash in some sort of randomized fashion, looking like it’s communicating readouts

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Definitely, I’m working on one like that as we speak.

@SummersideDiver 5 месяцев назад

Awesome simple approach, and great way to encourage others to get started

@TheSmugglersRoom 5 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it!

@dustinrosenau2733 2 года назад

Excellent starter video for LED's

@regularguyjedi9154 2 года назад

Thank you Brian. Needed this and have looked for some simple guidance on this topic. You also helped validate some of the shortcuts I will take when dealing with LED's.

@milepost465historyhobbies4 2 года назад

Great stuff! It’s never a bad time to get back to basics! 😀

@durandanne-john6621 2 года назад

Thanks you Brian for all this good tips !

@kyr_taap 2 года назад

The video I've been waiting for! Thanks once again

@ekij133 2 года назад

Breadboards are awesome. I have ... so many I don't know how many, but dozens. Many of them end up 'long term'' in projects that probably should have been transferred to vero-board at some point. Lead solder fumes are bad for you, but as a hobbyist we don't use it a lot. Use in a ventilated space and your exposure will be minimal. Lead-free solder is a whole lot harder to work with "If you've never used lead-free solder before, don't start now." 330 Ohms is fine choice for a 5V or 9V source but it's a little too small a value for many types of LEDs if using a 12V source. You'd be better off with a 560 Ohm resistor for 12V. More LEDs in series does not draw more current and therefore does NOT drain the battery faster. But you're limited to three or four before the Voltage across each LED drops too low to light the LED and the LEDs will dim the more you use. More LEDs in parallel does draw more current and will drain the battery faster. But you can wire as many LEDs in parallel as the power source can supply.. [Which is the opposite of what you said @ 9:10]

@samueleschiavo5816 2 года назад

YOU ARE A CHAMPION! SO SO FANTASTIC😍

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

LOL, thank you much!

@jaywaterman5774 2 года назад

🙏🏽🤩👍. I am just starting out with lighting 😮. It’s becoming a bigger universe 🤩💡❤️

@FeveredMind 2 года назад

Fantastic video! Having built my own R2 unit, I can relate to how stressful electronics can seem at the beginning. This video is excellent for someone just starting out to help them get past the fear. Personally, I would love to see Arduino coding videos as that is something that is still very intimidating to me. I'm sure that video is well down the road in this series, but I happily await it!

@kidspacelaunch5244 2 года назад

Love it! Thanks Brian again for imparting your wisdom on us. Your Masters Degree of Geekification from Internet University is in the mail! Look forward to more.

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Whoohooo!

@lloydwilliams6931 2 года назад

Love this more please. Especially around motor's and Arduino

@HDBrown-wc9xt 2 года назад

That’s awesome. Maybe now I can get my little droid finished. Can you going over sound boards/ sound effects?

@tzkelley 2 года назад

I was watching this while wearing the same sweatshirt--Galaxy's Edge!

@RadRelics 2 года назад

Gotta keep the tip clean! Check!

@jaromhardy636 2 года назад

Thank you so much! This is already so helpful. Learning to animate lights would be incredible

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@FabWorks80 2 года назад

Great video, Brian! Thank you so much for sharing these LED's tips.

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you bro!

@toonron 2 года назад

Beautiful thank you for sharing this!!! 🤘♥️

@DHGamerMR 2 года назад

Great video! Been thinking about using LEDs for a while so I'm very happy this one popped up this morning. Thanks for the lesson!

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful! Thank you!

@danwood7770 2 года назад

Add more this was great for prop makers

@PeopleKnowMe07 2 года назад

Dude I got the Erwin wire stripper a few weeks ago and love it! That's the worst part about electric work for me at least. I was stripping insulation off wires left and right in my garage when I got that thing (you know...just to test them out lol). Awesome purchase.

@EpicFables182 2 года назад

Thanks Brian, I would love to have more of a deep dive into programming an Ardino

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Awesome! We’ll do our best.

@richardgeorge9750 2 года назад

Agreed; looking for guidance to teach a Dad (me) & his teenager how to use an Arduino and addressable LEDs in a multi-tiered Lego display box … that will be eventually incorporated into a headboard/footboard for his bed.

@grahamwallis6568 2 года назад

Thank you for doing this, I'm just getting into the electronics side of things and for someone who studied art and design this is a very confusing part of prop making for me. I think this series is going to be extremely useful. Keep up the great work

@JasonJensenTrains 2 года назад

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Such a helpful video. Your da man Brian! 👍

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thanks bro! Much appreciated

@guilherme.santos 2 года назад

Brian, thanks a lot! Great and well done video, very useful for me at this right moment when I starting my eletronic projects with leds...

@jeremyhamilton2063 2 года назад

Thank you, sir!!

@AdamSchumph 2 года назад

+1 for the "Resistance" pun

@GaryFugginX 2 года назад

Yes! This is the series I have been looking for/wanting! I can't WAIT for more installments. Thanks for the beginning!

@SuperMasterTurtle 2 года назад

Thanks buddy, yes please more on this would be awesome. I am totally new to electronics, been hesitant to try because I have never done this before.

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Awesome!

@scottthomas6202 2 года назад

You can get by on a single equation for figuring current limiting resistors for LEDs, but you will need to know the forward voltage if the LED and current in milliamps. Very easy. Wiring them in parallel means if one goes out they all don't. In the '70s, LEDs were dim things that came in red, green, and yellow. They come in all colors now( as well as infrared and ultraviolet), and amazingly bright. Don't forget miniature incandescent bulbs and grain of wheat bulbs. Old school, but for some uses, they still have a place ..

@deanallenjones 2 года назад

okay up untill now I never saw a point to wirenuts BUT OMG doing this in paralel is perfect. I may have to get some to go with my Solder Sleeves. Cheers dude :)

@ll4u2xxx 2 года назад

Love this video ! Thank you for this type of content. Extremely helpful !

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

You bet! Glad it was helpful!

@bdlii 2 года назад

Awesome man. Love it!

@garlandsworkshop 2 года назад

Great coverage on the topic Brian…. Awesome video !

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you!

@anniesthesia 2 года назад

Start tipping 20%, then you don't need the calculator, just double the amount, then move the decimal two places left. This also provides a better pay for underpaid wait staff. Add more if the service is really good, or reduce if really bad (but still tip at least 15%).

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thanks for the “tip.” See what I did there 😉

@emausdetiquicia6636 2 года назад

Hey Brian! Thanks for this video. Is exactly what I was looking for my geeky builds. I have seen some other videos and I can't move beyond the clock battery. If you could in the future expand on using 5v USB cables it will be great.

@KevinMalliaTheMaker 2 года назад

I just finished 3D printing my full size R2D2. Huge rabbit hole I dove into and love it👍🏽. Videos like this is a great starting point for someone like me just getting started at adding electronics to their props. I would love to see more video like this. Great job 👏🏽

@BrucesWorldofStuff 2 года назад

Awesome Brian! I have had that same soldering iron for years. :-) I have 4 other irons with different tips so I just heat up the one I want to use... Lol On the resistors for led I just keep 220, 330, 1K, 1.2K, 1.5K's around because on my computers I don't like real bright leds so to dim them down I use a 1K but as you said red, blue, white, green leds have different forward voltages so once again the resisters are the key. Otherwise you will need R2D2 to help figure out the values... :-P A Bruce Tip, "keep a watch coin cell" around to test you led during the project to make sure it is a good Led. No resistor needed to test the leds... Keeps ya out of the Tantui Bars and trying to figure out what is wrong... Lol I think these videos will be of some great use, so yes do more Please! Oh, Thanks You! :-) LLAP

@blackmarketoutpost 2 года назад

What a great presentation I am looking forward to more on electronics especially Arduino set ups !!

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thanks man! I’ll trade you electronics for metal lathe help 😉

@blackmarketoutpost 2 года назад

@@TheSmugglersRoom that my friend is a deal !!

@Cosanplayprops 2 года назад

You can also get leds with renters and Sovereign tubes that use a heat gun.

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Oh! I did not know that. Very cool

@garagemonkeysan 2 года назад

Great video, super information. Another benefit of parallel over serial is in trouble shooting. A single failure in a series circuit is harder to find. (Think old xmas tree lights.) Mahalo for sharing! : )

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Totally! That’s a great benefit

@DoktorHalloween 2 года назад

Nice to have a geekacation again. Well done on keeping it clear and also providing detail. My interest lies in Arduino. Programming them intimidates me.

@RovingRushy 2 года назад

G'day Brian, top job mate. An idiots guide to Arduino would be great. Looking to do lighting in signage and I use a lot of tips from prop channels like yours for aging, metal finish etc. Ta rushy

@jeanmalo7173 2 года назад

I always go away your videos less stupid at night...lol...on another note I can't wait to start getting updates on your Star Wars themed RB&B...that's going to be epic...stay safe!

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you! So glad to hear that!

@scottcooper3290 2 года назад

Really enjoy these videos and the tips are very helpful. I agree with other comments, would enjoy seeing more of this and how to use Arduino.

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Wonderful! We’ll get it done for you

@DMAbCD 2 года назад

Thank you for another wonderful informative video. I have taken mechatronics courses at my local community college. It covered basic electronics and coding. The coding portion really kicked my but. In my final class we had to program a picax. I would love to see a video on how to program an Arduino and how to incorporate electronics into a Mandalorion costume. In addition, if you know how to create your own custom circuit boards , that would be another really informative video. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing, it really helps me get inspired.

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you! Arduino is coming!

@DMAbCD 2 года назад

@@TheSmugglersRoom Awesome. Thank you

@jpnluvtj13 2 года назад

I think more geek-e-cation on electronics is a great idea! it's been years since my audio engineering in college and though I was dealing with sound, we went over exactly all the same things in this video. sadly I forgot all the resistors, volts, and whatnot info so a refresher would be great

@padoco73 2 года назад

I've been working with Arduino shields to make voice modulators for my Dalek & Cylon builds. (Really looking forward to the "Who's on First" routine with these two) Tutorials on using these are limited, though. If it wouldn't be too much of a bother...

@geoflyer15 2 года назад

I really needed this guide. Thank you for making LED electronics a little closer to attain. How would you go about wiring to 12 V plug instead of 9V battery connection? Great content, as usual

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you Glynn. We will be doing a follow up here soon using the 12v. That said, with these 9-12v prewired LEDs you can wire up the LEDs directly to that power supply.

@spiffingproductions 2 года назад

can you do an in depth look on laser cutting/printer?

@GregoryHaynes 2 года назад

Hi Brian, I would like to see how to make two LEDs interact with a rheostat. I'd like to manually control glowing eyes in a mask. Think Grimm Reaper! Or Jawa.

@kurcbuzdegan6005 2 года назад

It’s all coming back to me… ohm’s law… in high school, now…. Oh, crap - 50 years ago! Yeah, we had electronics theory then - I took 3 years of electronics in 2 years of school - many of the graduates went on to MIT, NASA, Boeing - me…. I joined a band… But learned a ton of useful stuff… like how the tiniest capacitors could hold enough of a charge, that when you buried them in an eraser, with just a tiny bit of the leads poking out, energized the sucker, then pitched it across the math room to someone requesting it [making sure they weren’t in your electronics class]…. Like I said, I learned a ton of useful stuff. So I’m dusting off my soldering iron, and getting to it. Thanks for this refresher - we didn’t have LEDs back then, just big ol’ diodes [and they were!] - and if anyone asks to borrow an eraser…

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

LOL!!! A charged eraser . . . Genius!

@the_makersden 2 года назад

Thank you for putting this out there! I e been wanting to learn LEDs for a while but didn’t know exactly where to start and this is a great springboard to launch me in the right direction!

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

So Glad it was helpful!

@alexesposito1440 2 года назад

Thank you..this is so helpful!

@phmiii 2 года назад

I Love your Channel!

@carlstigaxel 2 года назад

I really needed this! I have been trying to find how to use a wall power supply to power a project, but have not found shat kind of product i need for that?

@GabrielRodriguez-nh1iv 2 года назад

How about a video on making a switch turn a led on and off. Or a push button switch.

@sandragon2714 2 года назад

Yes! Thank you so much. Been waiting for this. My problem comes with multiple leds. I am currently building a full size R2D2. I know kits are sold for a few hundred dollars. I would rather learn how to DIY them. I have been looking for tutorials can’t seem to get any good ones. Hopefully you can help. Been a fan of you,your wife and cool dad. Thanks to all you guys, can’t wait for your next project.

@TheSmugglersRoom 2 года назад

Thank you, we’ll help as much as we can!