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How to build a POV display?
I've recently gotten the itch to build a POV Display. I'm wanting to build the sort that rotates "vertically" (like a fan or bicycle rim) and I'm finding very little information on how to actually do ...
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Determine the angle and speed of a rotating platform
I have a 1 axis (x) spinning platform, that is spinning pretty fast ~300 RPM. I want to be able to detect with a good degree of precision how many degrees it has travailed from its starting position ...
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Arduino Mega 2560 like board but with more ram
I am making a POV RGB LED Globe that plays animations on its surface. Currently I am using a Arduino Mega 2560 with 256k of Flash Memory. My program and the boot loader take up 20k of memory leaving ...
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power for POV display
I want to build a litle POV display, but I didn't get how the power (and if possible a communication line) are transmited to the spinning part.
I've looked at some POV project but they usualy ...
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What makes a good RGB LED
I am looking for supplier for RGB LEDs for an upcoming project RGB POV LED Globe. Normally I would go to my local electronics supply story, but this project requires lots (~1000) of LEDs and my local ...
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POV globe speed questions
I am planning on creating a RGB LED POV globe only physically larger then that one.
I am planning on using 64 RGB LEDs, requiring 3x pins per LED for a total of 192 outputs. Obviously I am going to ...
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Which SIPO chip is better, 74HC4094 or 74HC595 or something else?
I want to drive lots of LEDs in a spinning persistence-of-vision (POV) device.
I need one output pin per LED, because matrix techniques don't work right in spinning POV devices.
A serial-input, ...
