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Revision as of 22:41, 6 July 2008

Creator:
Opticron
Status:
Research
Born On:
22:38, 6 July 2008 (CDT)
Last Updated:
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Overview

LED tiles are just that, a piece of PCB with five RGB LEDs on them and a single white LED. They use a 16 channel LED driver with a SPI interface so that many can be driven from the same microcontroller. The idea is that you can play with just one, or tile them on a wall or other surface for neat visual effects like fading a color across the surface. The size of the PCB is yet to be determined. Initial prototypes will be through-hole parts, but further revisions will be on real PCBs with SMT parts.

Parts List

Prototype

  • Breadboard
  • 5 tricolor through-hole LEDs
  • 1 white through-hole LED
  • 1 16 channel DIP LED driver

Production

  • PCB
  • 5 Tricolor SMT LEDs
  • 1 White SMT LED
  • 1 16 channel SMT LED driver
  • Header for pluggable SPI interface