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Rob Klingberg
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Tinkerer turned tech sales guy turned Chief Enthusiast. Started Brickstuff in 2011. Always amazed by the creativity of our customer community around the world!
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
Hi all, I'm working to get a video up in the next couple of days showing the status and patterns, FYI.
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3 yrs ago
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Logan McCain yes right now there are 10 total patterns. I worked all weekend on the code-- about 90% complete, will post videos soon. It's about to be lightbar-palooza around here! 😂
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Logan McCain Great, those will likely be some of the first ones we release.
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Re: Disney Castle - Lighting the Rose?
@Brian N Shannon Ignotowicz Hi, no need to worry about any nuclear explosions from connecting anything to that 9th connector in the upper level adapter-- the only issue that the main controller…
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3 yrs ago
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Re: Connector model numbers
Sorry for the delay in responding. We're about to release a full line of adapters that will allow customers to connect "any brand" to "any brand," so I think that need will be addressed.…
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3 yrs ago
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Re: Disney Castle - Lighting the Rose?
Hi there, thank you very much for ordering our kit and also for your patience while we work to get all of the pre-orders packed and shipped! To answer your question about the rose,…
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3 yrs ago
What Lights Do I Use For [a specific] LEGO Set?
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Re: Problem with Lighting Kit for LEGO Creator Ferris Wheel
@Angee Dyer Corso OK thank you for doing all of that troubleshooting work! It sounds like we need to send you one orange arm and one yellow arm-- is that right? Anything else?
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Logan McCain Yes all of the lightbars will have "normal" LEGO bottoms, so they will be able to attach to any other part with studs.
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3 yrs ago
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Re: Light and Sound Kit for the LEGO Ideas Treehouse (#21318)
@Jeremy Kemp Thank you Jeremy for your understanding. No idea yet on price but we will likely have a "basic" kit and then add-ons people can buy later,…
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3 yrs ago
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Logan McCain Yep that's definitely one of the pattern options we're programming. 🙂
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4 yrs ago
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Re: Light and Sound Kit for the LEGO Ideas Treehouse (#21318)
@Jeremy Kemp Hi Jeremy, thanks for checking in on this kit. Yes, the past 17 months have been a bit of a nightmare from an electronic components standpoint because of Covid and supply shortages that…
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Re: USS Saratoga CV 60 Vietnam War (Era) diorama Work in progress. This will be a 2 Year project, but without Brickstuff it would be a bland moc
Looks like an amazing project-- can't wait to see the updates!
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4 yrs ago
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Josh Doh! Thanks for pointing that out. Not sure why I could see it but it wasn't posted publicly. Should be there now. 😉
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Josh Lol yeah you're correct on all points! Thanks for jumping in.
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Logan McCain Yes, that's correct. You change the pattern by touching two exposed contacts underneath the tile. As mentioned earlier in this thread, there will be several different types and designs.…
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4 yrs ago
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Josh Soon. I need to finish up the code this week and then we're starting to assemble them this week as well.
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Re: 2 Ambulances, A bunch of Brickstuff LEDs!
@Josh Yeah overall it's a great product with a large base of community support.
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4 yrs ago
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Josh Using the Arduino IDE.
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Re: New Millennium Falcon # 75192
@Eric Stiff Sweet! Nice job with the modification. So happy you're enjoying the upgrade. 😎
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Re: 2 Ambulances, A bunch of Brickstuff LEDs!
@Josh KiCad was the easiest of the apps I tried. For years I tried to learn Eagle and even Altium, but KiCad turned out to be so much more intuitive for me.…
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Josh We design programming headers into our boards with processors and use AVR ISP programmers (basically custom Arduino AVR programmers).
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Re: Light and Sound Kit for the 2020 Creator Expert Ecto-1 (#10274)
@Freakmaster ok now THAT might be the coolest thing we've seen this entire year. BRAVO! When can we expect instructions? 😂
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4 yrs ago
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Re: 2 Ambulances, A bunch of Brickstuff LEDs!
@Josh Thanks, I'm 100% self-taught on PCB design myself-- I use KiCad and taught myself over a vacation at Christmas in 2018 by watching YouTube for like 12 hours non-stop.…
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4 yrs ago
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Josh Glad you like 'em! Yeah the prototyping took awhile because the turnaround on the flex PCBs was long. They're assembled by professionals with expensive equipment, not me.…
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Re: LIGHTBARS!
@Josh Here's a photo that may help explain how we've set these up: On the left is the "self-contained" version of the lightbar, with the chip in the center. Only two wires coming out, for power.…
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