Posts Tagged led cube
On LED driver chips
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Uncategorized on June 11, 2013
I have found the TLC5940 chip, which I thought would solve my problems. It didn’t, not all of them, or at least there are a few downsides to it. The main one being the timing requirements. The 5940 kind of does PWM. It doesn’t have an internal clock, so it relies on an external clock […]
LED cubes and Raspberry Pis…
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Personal on May 14, 2013
My plan of making an LED cube with a Raspberry Pi is coming together… been making a list of stuff I need, and looking good resources. IC 1: Serial in/Parallel out. Apparently this particular type of IC is called a 74HC595. Found it on a list of popular ICs for Arduino chips. Linked datasheet is […]
LED Cubes, and Raspberry Pis
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Design, Personal on February 2, 2013
Raspberry Pis have been out for a while. And I’m thinking of picking one up for projects over the work term in May – August. (Also, because a Raspberry Pi is just something interesting to have… the possibilities of a cheap & low-power Linux system are numerous.) I’m not sure how I got onto the […]