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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Update: With some experimentation, I think I figured out what was going on. I had an extra 10K resistor in the circuit which wasn’t necessary. With both the resistor and the potentiometer in the circuit, I was only able to light up the red channel with the pot turned fully clockwise. Without the extra resistor, a full turn of the pot lit up all the channels and gave me the white coloration I was wanting. The green and blue channels weren’t lighting up because of the excessive resistence and the fact that they obviously power up at different levels. I was making the poor assumption that all of the LEDs would power on at the same time despite the fact that green and blue light require different energy levels.







  • While not open source, Fusion 360 has a free for personal use version if you are wanting a fairly easy to use CAD program. I had been using mostly Blender up until recently since learning how to use Fusion. I love being able to parameterize everything. Blender is awesome though in it’s own right. I use both for making functional prints depending on what I’m trying to do. I tried FreeCAD, but it definitely has a bit more learning curve than Fusion.