justDIY Project Log

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Archive for April, 2007

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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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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