Another LED matrix display:-)

[geko]

Here's a little project I've been working on.

Cast your 'eye' over the the web page below

**broken link removed**

 

[audioguru]

Cute.
With all those LEDs blinking so quickly I didn't get a chance to count them. Hundreds?
I have seen similar projects made for cars and made very cheaply in China.
Usually their LEDs burn out within a couple of days.

 

[blueroomelectronics]

I counted 47. Looks cool like a big eye. Hope you used the Inchworm to program it

 

[donniedj]

In two ways and equal magnitude, you are living the dream and possess natural creativity. LED display artwork just like this was the main reason I began using microcontrollers a long long time ago. Its like a time machine snap shot of my past. Sadly now, my dream and creativity has ran empty

Great Job.

 

[sajivjess]

I have done a project with 8051 microcontroller based running light which has over 50 designs.

 

[Gayan Soyza]

Cool its good.I didn't count LEDs B'cuz I was counting the number of is IC's in Gekos circuit

 

[geko]

Hope you used the Inchworm to program it

I sure did Bill, Inchworm+Unicorn. Makes the development a breeze.

There's actually 94 LEDs (red+blue) in 47 packages. The first one I made up didn't use a PCB, I put the LEDs into an eye shaped aluminium sheet and hand wired them, took hours.

 

[geko]

Cool its good.I didn't count LEDs B'cuz I was counting the number of is IC's in Gekos circuit

Well now I could have used a PIC with more I/O and ditched the 595's I'll agree with you on that.

But then I would have had to buy one, whereas this design was done entirely out of the bits I already had, apart from the LEDs which I did have to buy.