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Author: Jin Lee, (Andrew Brandt)

During our freshman year, we built solar panels of 5 cells by 5 cells. Since this was my first soldering job not to mention my first electronic project, I admit that the final product is not as good as it would be if I did it today, but I am still proud of it. From this project, I gained insight into the new world of electronics and building things. 

 
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Author: Andrew Brandt

For me, the 24 digit binary bit counter I built is one of the projects I am most proud of because of the concepts that I learned in the process. To be honest, the entire project consists of flashing lights, which are fairly pointless. However, for me, the value was in the programming lessons learned. I was able to wire the connections together very easily due to previous experience, but I had to learn the shiftOut() method for Arduino. I went about this by taking existing code that used 8 LEDs and modified for it to work for 24 LEDs.