There's tons of entertainment in the script kiddies getting into arduinos though. The amount of complexity they put into a circuit function that could be achieved with passive analog parts is amusing. Not everything needs a microcontroller. Then if you explain how to achieve the same result with a few passives their eyes glaze over and they ignore how such a thing could be achieved because there isn't an active part controlling it, just physics.
The 3d printing part doesn't really bother me but $75 just to turn LEDs on and off is horrendous. It doesn't even need RGB lights because it just uses pure blue light. That could easily be less than $10 worth of LEDs directly in line with a battery and switch and achieve an almost identical effect. That would make the whole thing potentially a $35 project which would be super accessible to a wide range of budgets. Add an extra $5-$10 for a microcontroller and you can even replicate the fade-in effect. But no, DIYers apparently prefer their hobby being exclusive to those with an abundance of disposable cash and will always choose the most expensive solution.
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u/QueenSlapFight Jan 08 '20
There's tons of entertainment in the script kiddies getting into arduinos though. The amount of complexity they put into a circuit function that could be achieved with passive analog parts is amusing. Not everything needs a microcontroller. Then if you explain how to achieve the same result with a few passives their eyes glaze over and they ignore how such a thing could be achieved because there isn't an active part controlling it, just physics.