LED Display

Even now, after years of working within this industry, LEDs have a fascination to me. And an LED matrix is something that I can't wait to try out. A LOL Shield (Lots Of LEDs Shield) for an Arduino board was purchased and I set to work creating a Charlieplexed interface for it from the Amicus18 board, which will physically accept any Arduino shield, and allows programs to be written in Proton BASIC.
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Browsing the internet, I came across a rather nice looking LED dot matrix board, and the price was incredibly low. The board in question is the Sure 2416, and is available from Ebay. I couldn't resist buying one. All those flashing LEDs!
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I have been admiring this chip TLC5947 from Texas Insturments. This awesome chip makes it super easy to drive 24 led channels ...

Multiplexing of LED displays

The idea behind multiplexing is, basically, taking advantage of the limitations ...