Posts in 2023
  • Blinkekatze

    Tuesday, October 10, 2023 in Art

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    Wild Blinkekatzen in their natural habitat What is it? Blinkekatzen are a replacement PCB for commercially available silicone LED lights. The lights usually contain a battery and some RGB LEDs in a cat shaped housing. Blinkekatzen expand on this …

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  • OLED nametag

    Saturday, June 03, 2023 in Art

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    Features Bright, sunlight readable OLED display Infinity constrast ratio Support for GIF animations WLAN AP support Web interface for management of animations Automatic brightness adjustment 8h+ runtime Links Hardware: KiCAD design files Firmware: …

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Posts in 2022
  • Analog floppy synthesizer

    Saturday, October 29, 2022 in Art

    Your browser does not support the video tag. What is it? 3.5" floppy disks hold information by storing them magnetically on 80 different tracks (effectively circles) across the media. A stepper motor moves a read/write head across the media and …

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Posts in 2021
  • RGB LED nametag

    Wednesday, December 29, 2021 in Art

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    Your browser does not support the video tag. Hardware Specs 1x STM32F7 taking care of power management, USB and display multiplexing 1x ESP32 Pico D4 providing a web interface to build and store animations 20x HC595 shift registers for row and …

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  • Five meter LED wall

    Saturday, September 11, 2021 in Art

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    What is it? At the Hacken Open Air 2021 (Gifhorn, Germany) event, this 5m by 3m large LED display was built. It consists of 50 individual LED strings with 50 WS2812 LEDs each (50x50 pixels). A central Raspberry Pi feeds 3 seperate STM32F722 via …

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Posts in 2020
  • Graphical 128x64px VFD

    Sunday, September 27, 2020 in Art

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    What is it? This adapter board provides the required voltage level conversion, anode supply and filament bias voltages to run a Noritake MN12864K graphical vacuum fluorescent display. Bad Apple Links Breadboard adapter: KiCAD design files …

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  • NeonMatrix

    Saturday, June 06, 2020 in Art

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    Your browser does not support the video tag. What is it? The NeonMatrix 8x8 matrix uses common neon indicator bulbs to display simple graphics. They can be chained and controlled directly via SPI. Operating voltage is about ~70V AC. The circuit is …

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