Chirping bird pendant

By Ben Everard. Posted

This article was originally published as part of HackSpace magazine, which has since been incorporated into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.

Chirping bird pendant

This tiny free-form soldering circuit by Jack Spiggle (aka NanoRobotGeek) is a masterpiece of miniaturisation. The key to this build is the KXOB25-02X8F-TB solar panel, which generates 5.5 volts in the bright Australian sunshine. As with Jack’s other builds, the solar panel charges a capacitor, which, when it’s full, activates the circuit – in this case, that’s four oscillators making a ‘chirp’ sound via a piezo speaker.

Bird Pendant (use this as inset)

We can only imagine how hard it must be to perform free-form soldering on a circuit this small and get it so neat (Jack says that working with brass is a headache, as it conducts heat away from solder so quickly).


Ben Everard

Ben is the Editor of HackSpace magazine. When not wrangling words, he enjoys cycling, gardening, and attempting to identify wild mushrooms.

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