So, I finally managed to get the top hat sorted out using the Teensy 3.0 and the scrolling text code to display messages. A short video of it is below. The Leds in the strip are bright enough to shine through a very thin mesh that I used to hide the leds strips. Its actually…
The Graphic poi (pixel poi) project is now coming to a close. The final stage was to enable the leds to be updated from a series of BMP files held on an SD card. This way, it is possible to hold a large number of images on the device. The poi run off a Teensy…
I have been looking at storing a larger volume of predefined images and displaying these on the Pixel / Graphic poi. Well, it finally seems to be working. Using the Teensy 3.0 with an SD card breakout board, the poi can grab the data from the SD card using the usual file format (Fat), with…
well, I have been experimenting with using the ws2811 high density strips for persistence of vision batons (pixel poi) using the Teensy3 to run the show. Unfortunately, the chips inside the WS2811 leds just aren’t fast enough, as you can see from the image below: the problem is that the frequency of PWM is too…
So, I am moving my Graphic (Pixel) POI over to using a different LED and Microprocessor. The reason for this is to experiment with using a high density prebuilt strip of LEDs. These strips are 144led/m, individually addressable. To do this I need to use the new driver library for FastSPI. The new library is…
