Dave Pasquel - Make A Wish

This is "Make a Wish".  It is from the children's bedtime poem.

"Star light, star bright,
FIrst star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Make my wish come true tonight"

Use the momentary switches at the base of each star point to determine where that specific starpoint goes.  When they are all in place, a circuit based on magnetic switches closes and lights under "Make a Wish" illuminate.  Only then can you make a wish, and if you like, you can leave it on as a night light, or just seperate one starpoint from the body and the circuit will be disrupted and the light will go off.

First, here are the 5 circuits.  There are 4 independent RF circuits and  one circuit made of magnetic switches in series.  You may notice that I wired the T/E on each encoder to the same momentary switch for each respective data port.  This is so one encoder wil give up control of the decoder when a different encoder switch is depressed.

Here is the pattern

Here is the toys unstuffed

On the back of each piece there is an opening sealed by velcro to insert electronics and stuffing.

Here are pictures of 4 of the five electronics boards.  The first pic is the encoder/tx circuits (one per star point) and the second is the decoder/RX circuit (one in main body).

Here is the finished product.  You can not see the LEDS because of the flash,