The Megascroller, For Video Games In The Round
The folks at NYC Resistor have a thing for circular displays, it seems. Their earlier Hexascroller was a ceiling mounted display with six 30×7 displays – good enough to display the time and a few...
View Article800+ LED Wall With Diffuser Panel is a Work of Art
What happens when you take over 800 individually addressable super bright RGB LEDs and house them in a giant diffused panel? You get awesome. That’s what you get. [Epoch Rises] is a small electronic...
View ArticleSense Hat Lights up Pi
One of our chief complaints about the Raspberry Pi is it doesn’t have a lot of I/O. There are plenty of add ons, of course to expand the I/O capabilities. The actual Raspberry Pi foundation recently...
View ArticleRasPi LED Panel Library is Nyan-tastic
Quick–in a pinch, let’s have ourselves a giant RGB LED Matrix! As marvelous as it sounds, it’s pretty easy to forget that there’s a battle to be won against picking the right parts, debugging drivers,...
View ArticleReal-time Driving of RGB LED Cube using Unity3D
RGB LED cubes are great, but building the cube is only half the battle – they also need to be driven. The larger the cube, the bigger the canvas you have to exercise your performance art, and the more...
View ArticleTiny Tiny RGB LED Displays
Hackaday.io contributor extraordinaire [al1] has been playing around with small LEDs a lot lately, which inevitably leads to playing around with large groups of small LEDs. Matrixes of tiny RGB LEDs,...
View ArticleRealize the Truth… There Is No Word Clock
Do you always look at it encoded? – Well you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. Word clocks are supposed to de-encode time into a more readable format. Luckily [Xose Pérez]...
View ArticleReal-Life Space Invaders with Drones and Lasers
We’ve seen a proliferation of real-life video game builds lately, but this one is a jaw-dropper! [Tomer Daniel] and his crew of twelve hackers, welders, and coders built a Space Invaders game for...
View ArticleAfter The Sun Set On San Mateo, LED Takes Over Hackaday’s BAMF Meetup
After this Spring’s Bay Area Maker Faire closed down for Saturday night and kicked everybody out, the fun moved on to O’Neill’s Irish Pub where Hackaday and Tindie held our fifth annual meetup for...
View ArticleMorphing Digital Clock Will Show You A Good Time
A few weeks ago, [HariFun] set out to emulate a 7-segment display with an LED matrix. Seems easy enough, right? Right. He also wanted to come up with a new way to transition between digits, which is a...
View ArticleLots of Blinky! ESP32 Drives 20,000 WS2812 LEDs
20,000 LEDs sounds like an amazing amount of blink. When we start to consider the process of putting together 20,000 of anything, and then controlling them all with a small piece of electronics the...
View ArticleLED Matrix Takes You Down To Nixieland
It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Sure, there are some who might simply sugarcoat blatant plagiarism with fancy quotes, but there are still cases that come from well-intended,...
View ArticleArt Project Fast And Fouriously Transforms Audio Into Eye Candy
Fast Fourier Transforms. Spectrum Analyzers. Waterfall displays. Not long ago, such terms were reserved for high end test gear. But oh, how things have changed! It’s no surprise to many Hackaday...
View ArticleShare Screen To RGB Panel With Pi Pico W
RGB LEDs are great for adding a bit of color to your life, and it’s even more satisfying to use a matrix of them as a graphic display. [bitluni] built an RGB LED display with Pi Pico to which you can...
View ArticleA Private View of a Public Transport Sign
[Stefan Schüller] was a fan of the LED signs that display arrival information for the trams and buses in their city of Zürich. [Stefan] was having trouble finding a source to purchase the signs so,...
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