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Posted May 13, 2012 by Chris

“The basic ingredients are a big felt pen, large enough to host some batteries, a bunch of old CDs forming the flying wheel, an embedded ATmega microcontroller, 8 small SMD LEDs, and some wires. Glue about four CDs together and mount them on the felt pen as shown in the figure.”

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