CMiYC Labs, Inc. » tlc5940 http://www.cmiyc.com Projects and Ideas by J. Lewis Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:33:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BinBoo Control Board, Alive http://www.cmiyc.com/blog/2011/10/29/binboocontrol-board-with-leds/ http://www.cmiyc.com/blog/2011/10/29/binboocontrol-board-with-leds/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:07:56 +0000 James http://www.cmiyc.com/blog/2011/10/29/control-board-with-leds/ Control Board with LEDs by JamesC4S

The control board is up and running, with some re-work. Shown next to the working LEDs is my original inspiration.  Last Christmas my brother gave me the ThinkGeek Binary watch.  Since then I’ve been fascinated with binary clocks.  Finally I had an idea that can help with other projects

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TLC5940NT Painter Board

This screen shot is an all-layer view of my TLC5940 painter board.  The 1st draft featured two TLC5940s, but I decided it made the board too large.  Instead, I wanted the ability to mount the painter boards around the LED’s shadow box.  This should make routing all the wires much easier.

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This pattern is called Row Your Boat. As one of the strips starts to get brighter, a nearby strip will join in the fading.  After completing a fade cycle, they start switching colors. There is a random strobe thrown in there as well.  The first 10 seconds are with a diffuser (piece of paper), the last 10 seconds are without.  The final panel will use a diffuser.

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