# Stickman-Costume
This was made for a halloween-costume. The code runs on an attiny85, mainly to be able to dim the lights down.

# Usage
1) Make the costume
2) Solder together the board
3) Upload the code to the atiny
4) Have fun!
## Operation
- Hold button `SW2` to change brightness/ pwm frequency.
- Click button `SW1` to go through the modes.
## Modes
1) `Static` This is just a static PWM-signal of the set frequency.
2) `Slow Strobe` This is a very slow blinking strobe effect.
3) `Medium Strobe` This is the same strobe effect, just a tad faster.
4) `Fast Strobe` This is the strobe effect in it's full glory!

# Schematic
![Schematic](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JakobST1n/Stickman-Costume/master/StickmanCostume.png)
`R2` and `R3` should be around __10K__.
## Layout
![Layout](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JakobST1n/Stickman-Costume/master/ProtoboardLayout.png)

This is the layout i ended up with on my proto-board. The grey wire is the only "jumper" that was put on the top side of the board. All the other wires are "solder-traces" on the bottom side.

I did not use a full-size through-hole voltage-regulator, but a AMS1117-3.3 on the bottom.

Since i didn't have a 8-pin din IC socket i used a 14-pin one, but that does not make a difference either. 

The red lines on the far right, is just an explanation of where i soldered my In-Out wires, They are not actually wires, but i soldered wires in where they start. This is the "same" thing as `J1` and `J2` on the scematic.

# Todo
- I have a problem where it looks like it returns to mode `0`. I Haven't really figured out if this is due to bad code or bad soldering (or both). But there are a lot of improvements that could be done to the code, reagrding checking button presses.
- If you want to do this project, please add a reasonably sized cap (ceramic maybe) near the attiny. I think the problems above are from the chip reseting due to power spikes.