I Knew It!
Posted 2011.03.09 9.06 in Pointless Blather byI knew it! I knew it all along!
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It’s (pocket-sized) blinkin’ flashin’ heaven.
The LoL Shield (Lots of LEDs) is an add-on board for the Arduino microcontroller prototyping device.
One hundred and twenty-six LEDs, all on a space of about 3″ by 2″, all a-blinkin and a-flashin.
Of course the first thing I wanted to do was run Conway’s Game of Life on there. Turns out there was a GoL program already made, in the associated library / examples. Still, I had to tweak it a bit to get it to work ‘just so’.
Now all I gotta do is replace the Arduino with something smaller, maybe just the Atmega uC, add some batteries and put it in a little portable case.
Real electronics should glow in the dark.
Edited to add: Click here to download my updated / tweaked version.
Part of the same family of sites that brings us our lolcats, is the Fail blog.