The DaVinci Awards are a way of giving recognition to the folks that help make the TRG such a success.
With Paul Atkinson doing the electronics & PCB work, Ed Gonzalez doing the layout and laser work, Rick Abbott doing the metal work, and Vern Graner doing the final assembly and project management, they delivered some pretty nice looking awards!
The awards have a built-in battery base with a microprocessor-controlled color-changing RGB LED. There are several modes of operation from static, blinking, and color shifting. The finished product was incredible … but what was even more amazing is the fact that they were kept entirely a secret until the day of the end-of-the-year banquet.
More information on color-changing LEDs and driver circuits : http://picprojects.org.uk/projects/rgb/
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