Ten Mile Square Library

Practical Microcontroller LED Designs - lessons and gotchas from prototype to production (PDF)

Presented by Alden Hart at Dorkbot DC, November 25, 2008

LED projects are a popular topic these days. This talk covers some microcontroller LED projects Alden has done ranging from at-home projects to manufactured units. The discussion covers the inner workings of the Ten Mile Square lucites, as well as other lighting projects.

Topics include:

• Color theory, transformation and perception as related to LEDs
• LED driving and dimming techniques, multiplexing - and some workarounds to common problems
• PIC16F917 assembly programming, optimization, and tricks.
• Getting results and controlling costs in hardware projects.

See more on this presentation in Make Magazine blog.

Ten Mile Square Lucite Cube Instructions and Information