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This past week I have modeled and rigged several circuit elements to make up a small "library" of objects for convenient use, and even visualization of circuits. I was actually hoping to finish the library earlier so I could make an actual circuit (I had in mind a 5 input AND gate), but perhaps till later.

In the library so far:
-resistor (need to make specific ohm color rings though)
-LED (on and off state is defined by single variable in material nodes, so it can be animated!)
-Op-amp + Logic gate
-Several connection wire lengths
-Breadboard (I need to fix some numbering issue though...)

I intend to also create aligator clips, a couple sizes of capacitors, and perhaps a battery. The LED's and resistor have been rigged with two IK constraints each, with 3 control points, so it's effortless to position the arms and main body individually. I plan on releasing the library to blendswap once I've finished it up.

Only a little compositing was done to make the LED's glow more, but even without that the on state is still decent. Made with blender and cycles.

Moo-Ack!
~Patrick W. Crawford

Description
This past week I have modeled and rigged several circuit elements to make up a small "library" of objects for convenient use, and even visualization of circuits. I was actually hoping to finish the library earlier so I could make an actual circuit (I had in mind a 5 input AND gate), but perhaps till later.

In the library so far:
-resistor (need to make specific ohm color rings though)
-LED (on and off state is defined by single variable in material nodes, so it can be animated!)
-Op-amp + Logic gate
-Several connection wire lengths
-Breadboard (I need to fix some numbering issue though...)

I intend to also create aligator clips, a couple sizes of capacitors, and perhaps a battery. The LED's and resistor have been rigged with two IK constraints each, with 3 control points, so it's effortless to position the arms and main body individually. I plan on releasing the library to blendswap once I've finished it up.

Only a little compositing was done to make the LED's glow more, but even without that the on state is still decent. Made with blender and cycles.

Moo-Ack!
~Patrick W. Crawford