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.
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
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.
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.