[HH] Controlling lots of LEDs with a microcontroller

Nuno Sucena Almeida slug at aeminium.org
Fri Jan 20 09:25:22 EST 2012


	Having done something similar in the past using a uC to control a i2c
driver, if you want to avoid too much soldering, consider using a led
matrix, instead of individual LEDs. It will look more like a regular
polygon instead of a circle though. These can be found in many places,
here's one:

<http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDrillDownView?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&freeText=led%20matrix&search_type=jamecoall>

			regards,
				Nuno

On 01/20/2012 01:07 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> <http://www.ti.com/product/tlc59116>Up to 224 LEDs controlled over I2C, and
> that's easily muxed to get you more.

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