justDIY Project Log

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Some space to write down what I was thinking about when I designed or photographed something.

Archive for the 'Microcontroller' Category

POV Toy

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

I recently had the urge to create some “eye candy”; Thinking along the lines of my LED Sign (it’s not dead, just waiting on parts!), I chose to create a similar effect, using only a single line of leds, instead of a 5×7 array.
Persistence of Vision is some sort of effect, either psychological or biological [...]

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LED Sign; Now With Scrolling!

Friday, April 13th, 2007

This morning I hammered out a quick and dirty method to scroll a message on my single character LED sign. The scrolling is based around a few subroutines. A text message of 12 characters is passed to the scroll subroutine, along with the number of loops to make. The scrolling routine breaks [...]

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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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