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Knight Rider Lights


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By: kurt

The red flashing lights on the front of the car KITT in the popular Knight Rider series are an iconic visual effect. You can easily recreate this effect with this open source hardware project. Using a couple simple components, we'll light up a series of LEDs in order giving the illusion that the light is bouncing back and forth from side to side.

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. Insert 555 timer

Insert the 555 timer at the top of the breadboard. Make sure that the dimple on the top surface of the package is towards the top of the bread board.

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. Insert wires

Insert wires as shown.

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. Insert resistors

Insert two 1k resistors as shown. The first one is between pins 2 and 7 of the 555 timer, and the second one is between pin 7 and +9V.

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. Insert capacitor

Insert the 100uF capacitor as shown. The negative leg should be plugged into the ground rail on the left side of the bread board. The negative leg is indicated by a stripe or arrows on the cylinder.

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. Insert decade counter (NTE4017B)

Insert the decade counter as shown.

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