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Project: Mega POV
Date:December 2005

Summary:

There are plenty of ways to blink a LED. However the one way to really maximize on a small amount of LEDs is to exploit a technique called Persistence of VisionThis project uses only 14 LEDs. The circuit can be waved back and forth in the air, or mounted to a spinning device like a computer fan or bike wheel. Letters will slowly appear as one stares at this blinking device. This is my second POV device. My first was Tiny POV. The primary changes are use of transistor arrays and double the amount of LEDs/Resistors. Despite twice the amount of hardware to this circuit is actually about 24% smaller than the first Tiny POV project.

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