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Anja

Hi Gregor! Oh that's an interesting story! 😄 I actually bought a voltmeter to make sure I don't destroy anything and then felt like the doc from back to the future. 😄 Great that you had fun anyway. 😊

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Gregor Gonzalez

We only use a 5v phone charger, but when we removed the pic to program it, we made a mistake and put it either the other way around or wrong. At the first test we realized that it was not working and it was too late, this happened many times 🤣

is it still in fashion? was not replaced by Arduino? 🤔

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Hehe you learn with each mistake. :) I think arduino is a popular Microcontroller at least that's the one I found when looking e.g. For tutorials. I used the Elegoo though cause it was available with a set for a good price. 😊