Light Shield

Light Shield

For this assignment you will be assembling a Light Shield.

This assignment is the first piece to making your own VUMeter. Over the course of the next few weeks, you will build one of these:

To complete the light shield, you will learn about assembling PCBs with SMD1 components by hand.

Good luck, and don’t be afraid to ask for help.


  1. Surface Mounted Devices (SMD) are components that sit on the surface of a PCB and are soldered directly to exposed copper. ↩︎