I have lost my way in the world of software and its now time to brush the dust off my interest in building hardware
I have looked into using Neo-pixels strips and I was really impressed with the simplicity of use. Now I was curious about controlling a matrix of individual, non-addressable RGB LEDs. So I searched out a LED Matrix driver that looked like it could handle RGB LEDs. My search ended with the IS31FL3736 12×8 DOTS MATRIX … Continue reading RGB LED Controller
Introduction I have written about the Timed LED Lighting Controller in previous posts. Starting with the original entry “Stairwell Foot Lighting System”. In this entry I will be wrapping up the project and describing the change of direction from the initial design and layout. There may be a bit of overlap but it will be … Continue reading Wrapping up the Timed LED Lighting Controller Project
The purpose of this entry is to describe the assembly, programming and testing of the alternate Clock Display Module - whereby instead of a dedicated display driver chip, the module will be controlled by its own micro controller. This was created under a separate GitHub branch as UCtl_small. After the relative ease of getting the … Continue reading Alternate Display Driver
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