justDIY Project Log

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Archive for the 'LEDs' Category

Single Character LED SIGN

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

We’ve all seen the various sites where someone put a massive led sign online, and they let people abuse it. What I’ve managed to build is a “single character” led sign. I don’t know if I’ll be able to get my sign online, but I’ll take a stab at it.
After wasting [...]

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LED Matrix Backpack

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

I had purchased some huge (2″) 5×7 matrix a while ago, as part of my led sensor research. They’ve basically been banging around the lab since, getting pins bent and such. So this past weekend, I decided to put them to some other use. Their pin layout is sort of weird, it [...]

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Switchmode LED Driver

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

This is the second incarnation of my tps61040 based LED driver (here and here). As I wrote just a few posts ago, I’m trying out a new layout strategy to make my gizmos more breadboard friendly.
The 300 mil (thanks Dave) DIP16 package proves to be very small, so small I had trouble trimming it [...]

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