Im looking for some advice at that im completely new to making a pcb, layout, picking parts (i understand a bit about the parts from watching dave and many other channels in youtube)
I want bright leds. All i will have to work with will be a hakko 888fxd station 65 watt. (or should i go for a ripoff of the 921, i think thats the model) that uses the heater element in the tip? or will the 888fxd do me fine?
Also im not sure what kind of leds to go with. I do want RGB, i dont know weather to go with SMD or Through hole. I know SMD is harder and my hands arent very steady.
Basically I want to make a PCB shaped like a heart, and have like several sizes of hearts within the one heart (does that make sense?) like a larger amount on the outside, then another row with less, another row with less, and so on until I have the heart shaped PCB completely filled with leds in a heart pattern in it.
I was kind of thinking making them seperate almost like how some pcb have notches cut out, like have the outer set of leds be on a part of the pcb, but then have a smaller heart still connected to the pcb with less leds. and so on and so forth instead of 1 big heart shaped pcb, have it be in sections kinda. I will try to MS paint a quick idea tomorrow as its 12pm eastern atm.
If i would use the seperated idea I was planning on having each section glow 1 color at a time, Example - Outer section all Purple/pinkish, next all blue, next all green, next all yellow, orange, and red finally but allow the user to change them with either a remote or some kind of breakout board attached to the heart pcb that they could mount inside a jacket or something. Ultimately this PCB would become a necklace like the RGB bowtie dave got on one of his Mail bags.
Main points:
SMD or Through hole
Maximum Brightness
Diffuse or not diffuse
and maybe a brand of LEDs that are known to be very bright. I started trying to learn Diptrace today and will continue with that. I was looking on adafruit because they seem to have a lot of addressable and multiplex-able LEDS and easy ways to drive them for clothing or jewelry items.
I really wanna do this as I have no job and im disabled but dont get disability anymore (long story) I will be able to afford all the components and the manufacture of the PCB's though.
Any extra advice is also appreciated.
If I go SMD im thinking of using these
https://www.adafruit.com/product/1655