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  • scanlime048 – Icestudio LED Matrix Driver Part 4

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    In the fourth and final part of our HUB75-style display driver series, we make a cool demo in gateware using the modular driver! In this segment we’ll add a frame buffer and implement a video feedback plus munching squares effect in Verilog and Icestudio. scanlime048 – Icestudio LED Matrix Driver Part 4 The Icestudio editor…

  • scanlime047 – Icestudio LED Matrix Driver Part 3

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    In the third part of our HUB75-style display driver in Verilog and Icestudio, we start looking at demoscene-style effects to implement next, and implement a gamma correction and dithering module to improve color quality. scanlime047 – Icestudio LED Matrix Driver Part 3 The Icestudio editor and the entire build toolchain are free and open source…

  • scanlime046 – Icestudio LED Matrix Driver Part 2

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    In this second part of the HUB75-style display driver in Verilog and Icestudio, we’ll debug and reorganize the existing gateware into something modular that we can build upon, with nice and stable Binary Code Modulation for brightness control. scanlime046 – Icestudio LED Matrix Driver Part 2 The Icestudio editor and the entire build toolchain are…

  • scanlime045 – Icestudio LED Matrix Driver Part 1

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    In this project we’ll be programming up some FPGA “gateware” using the visual Icestudio environment and the industry standard Verilog language, in order to display full color images on an inexpensive HUB75E-style LED video wall panel. This first video focuses on project bringup and just getting *something* on the screen, even if it’s a bit…

  • scanlime039 – Unboxing Cameras and LEDs, USB 3 and pre-UNIX

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    In my live streams I’ve been inviting you to send me new reverse engineering projects at my P.O. box. In these videos, I’ll introduce a few of the items I’ve been receiving, with a bit of the mystery preserved! Thank you so much for watching, subscribing, and sharing my videos. And a special thanks to…

  • bigclive’s LED Tree – scanlime:025

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    Join me in assembling a surprise LED lighting kit from bigclive himself! Check out his channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom Subscribe to YouTube notifications or follow https://twitter.com/scanlimelive for live streaming announcements. I’m also streaming on Twitch now, at https://twitch.tv/scanlime Please consider supporting me on Patreon so I can keep making these vids! https://www.patreon.com/scanlime

  • Fadecandy Controller available from Adafruit

    Fadecandy Controller available from Adafruit

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    The Fadecandy controller (initially announced here) is a new USB interface board for making more expressive art installations using the widely available WS2811 “NeoPixel” LED strips. It controls up to 8 strips of 64 LEDs, and it includes a unique dithering algorithm to help you quickly get the best quality color from each of your…

  • Fadecandy: Easier, tastier, and more creative LED art

    Fadecandy: Easier, tastier, and more creative LED art

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    I’ve been working on a project lately that I’m really eager to share with the world: A kit of hardware and software parts to make LED art projects easier to build and better-looking, so sculptors and makers and multimedia artists can concentrate on building beautiful things instead of reinventing the wheel. I call it Fadecandy.

  • Lego Sky

    Lego Sky

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    Over the weekend, I had a chance to finish up a project that I started (and immediately became distracted from) several weeks ago. In our house, Paul and I have a game room. This is where the video games live, as well as other assorted geekery. We have Magic cards, D&D books, some manga.. it’s…

  • R/C helicopter lights, Revision A.5

    R/C helicopter lights, Revision A.5

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    Atmel is going to personally revoke my electrical engineering license if they ever find out what’s in that yellow heat-shrink blob, but I now have a shiny new 5 gram version of my helicopter light kit =D This version has all the same remote-control dimming and strobe capabilities of the heavier Revision A. The only…

  • Hardware sketch: R/C helicopter light kit

    Hardware sketch: R/C helicopter light kit

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    As great as it is to finish a professional-looking hardware project with optimum component choices and full design documentation, I love the feeling of sketching in hardware (or as I’ve called it in the past, improvisational electrical engineering). Despite all the faults and rough edges in today’s development tools, we do live in a world…