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== Design notes == | == Design notes == | ||
Revision as of 20:09, 25 March 2011
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Updates
March 2, 2011 Nick clued us in to the handy MAXIM 6953 5x7 LED display driver. After some Googling which at times lead us to MAXIM magazine, Nick and Steve put in an order on MAXIM's site for 3 free samples, which should arrive at Steve's house soon.
March 9, 2011 Steve gave 2 of the 3 MAXIM 6953 chips to Nick and kept one to experiment with. Nick is gonna get some IR LEDs and make sure they actually are visible thru a digital camera outside during daylight so as to make sure it's worth it to buy all those LEDs.
March 23, 2011 Nick has a board layout for the 5x7 array. Steve is going to buy some IR LEDs to look into the aforementioned testing.
Design notes
5x7 characters Will have 4 characters scrolling
Driver chip: MAXIM 6953 This uses a pretty basic serial interface to drive the LEDs (I2C) There is a character set defined in ROM. Users can define their own symbols or use the user defined characters to implement scrolling, but doing so requires a crudload of code.
Here's a nifty project somebody did
IR LEDS front of box will be covered w/ lens, trashbag, something like that
Software
Programming this is very easy via an Arduino. See
- http://shieldstudio.com/press/downloads/
- Much more thorough code example here: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1285387425/6
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