My goal is to use an image and output it to the marquee. I really don’t want to build matrix characters one by one. I mostly want to create anti-aliased characters or graphics. How? By making the leds blink more or less time. That will make the glow-in-the-dark stripe illuminate more when the led lit […]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Glowing marquee
Inspired by the Record Player Display projet, I start doing one of my own. A glowing stripe marquee, using an old scanner ripped off. The objective is to learn how stepper motors works, optic switch and resume my experience with logic chips like the 74HC595 shift register. Globally, everything is relatively simple and it’s just […]