even the official tutorial pages on this site (there's some major errors in some of the tutorials and apparently no way to get anybody to correct it).

and that's a good way to run an official site/forum? surely there must be a way to correct the tutorials..

[The Authority]

Oh ? ? ?
So, who's The Authority?

if you must know... CrossRoads... mod and 22 yr engineer on here...

How many cloves of garlic does chicken get cooked with?
How much baking powder should I use with flour?

Catch my drift?

depends on what kind of chicken dinner/lunch you are making.. but atleast i was being specific on my project!

here we go again with the sarcasm...


k, i'm taking a break from arduino and the bs sarcasm... it's really starting to piss me off and i don't need anyone's crap anymore


anyways, thanks for not making me feel welcome on this forum everyone.. wish i could say it was a blast.. but i won't lie, it wasn't thanks to all the bs sarcasm that has been dished out to me more than once.. i hope this isn't how you treat all new people to arduino and the forum.

most of my projects will involve ATLEAST 100 leds - (some 50)... whether they be single color, bi-color or RGB - (most are RGB), but i have a few projects that are single color..


right now for this specific project, i have a sheet of pegboard - it will hold 1,012 RGB leds.. so,  1 uF capacitor for every 74HC595 and 1 pnp for every 10 leds is what i'm told...

i may do the same project using just blue leds, but for that i can use max7219's - as each one can drive 64 leds - requiring less than the one with RGB leds.... may even try one with bi-color leds.. haven't decided if i want to build a third project of it.. but the RGB one and the single color one - i am interested in doing right now.

look, i'm getting sick of everyone's sarcasm around here! i'm not asking for anything to be handed to me on a silver platter.. i just want to know where the freaking pnp's and capacitors go! that's all i'm asking for!!! damn..

as for me, i have made ds games, pc games/software and websites, i have also owned an online mafia game, i'm mod on a gardening forum, i have done tons of security work and getting into armed security - i am a chef by trade! so good to all of us for having a past!

starting to feel sorry i bought this damn thing for my son and i to have something to do together and joining this forum.. since day 1 i never felt welcomed here... and i still feel the same way. glad i won't let my son join this forum... i can imagine how he would be treated.

and for all of you "experts" on here.. shame on you for not remembering what it was like being new and/or not having the patience to those that are new.. and you should also stop talking to all the new people like they know as much as you.

yeah, i got it.. refer back to my second post..

that's not very helpful.. i have 74HC595's from different sources.. i don't know who the actual manufactures are nor am i going to track them down... (like i don't have other things to do)... and honestly, i don't know your skill level, but i'm not going to take advice from someone new who has less posts than i do.. no punt intended.

never mind, i get it... but where does uF capacitors go? i thought you needed 1 for every 74HC595? also, they may not be using 10 leds... but i'd like to know where the pnp goes as well (because i will be using 10 leds per row in a lot of my stuff)..

ok, we all know i'm new.. so, excuse my lack of understanding this..

but according to:http://bildr.org/2011/02/74hc595/

the way they are daisy chaining them show 2 different ways.. both are using 2 74HC595's


and


the reason i am more aggravated than anything is... you get told different things by different people and when you look at tutorials - (not that youtube is good for any of that.. it's more like "look what i did" than actually teaching you something), people do it differently...


i just want to daisy chain as many as i want/need properly.. so can someone please explain (and show if possible) the right way of doing it as far as pnp's and capacitors go.. this is very important to me because most of my projects will revolve around this - (unfortunately because most of my projects involve using a lot of leds).

thank you

not everybody knows that (especially new people to arduino).. uF and nF were 2 different things to me.. so i looked specifically for uF

i normally would have ordered from dipmacro.. but i didn't see any uF's... i didn't know you could use nF's.. so i was looking for the specific ones..

i have also ordered from tayda... both are excellent and highly recommended sources!


for the most part, they are cheaper - but not in all instances..
ie:
100 Bright RGB LED 5mm Common Anode Clear Lense 4-pin Bulb Tri-Color's - dipmacro price: $19.94 + shipping - ebay price: $12.94 free shipping

that's just 1 example - overall yes, i would stick with dipmacro or tayda -but since i am not that much in a rush, waiting on delivery is ok at the moment with me.

i'm about to start the same exact thing... i just got my 0.1uF 50V's in the mail today..

100 of them for $3.00 on ebay.... seller:thaishine

i am working with CrossRoads on a couple of projects, i can't keep asking him for help with everything - i feel bad as it is.. that's why i posted on the forum..

thinking an atmega chip or something.. basically your not going to have a physical arduino (like my arduino mega 2560), or a duo/leonardo attached/connected to it..

i will use the arduino to build it - it just won't be powered or connected to one in the end... not everything you build/program with the arduino - has to be powered or connected to it in the end. show me the law that says it must..


so i am in the right place thank you.. shame on you for saying that.. you should know better!

You don't need an Arduino for this - here's a project that might interest you: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/. How about building a solar powered one?

very interesting.. thinking a much bigger scale.. 3 or more cell phones at a time...


pretty much everything i will make - will end up stand alones.. so i'll never need the arduino in the end