LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE: 0%

1.  When I assembled and stuffed my node and bus boards the first time, my TINY85 chips were soldered on upside down and so everything was burned out when I plugged it in.

2. Initially I tried desoldering the chips and LEDs in hopes of salvaging the remainder of the board. I tried both the "bake it in a toaster oven" and "heat it with a heat gun" methods, but the results were a toasted board in the first instance and all of my components bouncing off the board in the second instance.

3. I started by applying a layer of gel coat on the helmet so that the lower layer would smooth out nicely.

4.The most satisfying part of this process was throwing the golden-brown toasted board on the ground and stomping it into dust.

5. Until today, I have not had any opportunities to build new nodes.

6. Turns out I did not understand how to correctly connect each node in order to program it. Connecting them to the BUS with the 4 pin cable only to provide power. When programming the Nodes, you must connect each one directly to the FabISP with the 6 pin connector one at a time.