[HH] Controlling lots of LEDs with a microcontroller

[Drew Van Zandt]

Depending on how large you want it to be, make a custom PCB for it via
DorkbotPDX.  $5/square inch gets you 3 copies of any 2-layer board you can
generate Gerber files for.

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Drew Van Zandt
Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics & Robotics
Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D.  Masquerade aVST
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Nuno Sucena Almeida <slug at aeminium.org>wrote:

>
>        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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