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Project: Tiny POV
Date: November 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 Vision. This project uses only seven LEDs. The circuit can be waved back and forth in the air, or mounted to a spinning device (like a computer fan). Letters will slowly appear as one stares at this blinking device. This was a gateway project for me to get learn how to use a JTAG ICE MKII for development and programming with interrupt timers. The message is a static value spelling the word "CODE". I have rather ambitious plans to display higher resolution images and using a wireless conneection to update that image.

The Project primarily consists of:

Movie
Tiny POV breadboard on computer fan (2MB)