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doh!  I was hoping for something I could clip the chip into, which would then happily solder into a perf board....


guess I might have to look at using different chips then :o

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doh... typed out a reply.... had an idea... went to google it... lost my reply :-(

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@knighty.. you were right at saying bi-color if yer only using 2 colors..

and i thought my 400 tri color led multiplexing was a huge project..

i can't seem to the exact answers to multiplex 100 tri color leds at a time that i seek.. and you want to do 13k of them?

knighty, good luck with it.. would like to see how it comes out when yer done with it!

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Well, knighty hasn't posted to the forum since
February 04, 2012, 03:54:59 PM
would not hold my breath waiting for a reply!

Its certainly possible to do more complex things, but likely more processing power is needed:
http://gajitz.com/a-bit-of-light-dancing-bizarre-3d-led-curtain-display/?ref=search&utm_campaign=googimages&utm_source=images&utm_medium=other

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I'm planning to build a really big tri colour led cube but I'm worried with so many LEDs the multiplexing will be too slow

if I use a TLC5951DAP as an led driver it will give me 24 outputs with 12 bit resolution for brightness control


I'm thinking of building a 24x24x24 cube (13,000 led's)

24x24x24 RGB LEDs is actually 41472 LEDs (24x24x24x3)

Whichever way you slice it, that's a lot of LEDs ... and a lot of input data.

It's definitely not going to work by updating LEDs individually.

Even if you only update one row of LEDs at a time you need to update it a 50kHz to get a usable frame rate (24x24x100) - simply not going to happen with an Arduino Uno at 16MHz.

The only way I can see it working is to divide it up into planes and have each plane controlled by a separate processor. That divides all your numbers by 24 and makes them sensible.

Each plane could be multiplexed in rows so your multiplexing ratio is 24:1. Each row has 72 LEDs so it could be driven with 5xTLC5940 (or whatever...), perfectly possible to do with an Arduino-class chip.

Physically supporting the LEDs as separate planes would be tricky. I suppose that's why most big cubes I've seen seem to be hung on wires - make gravity work for you, not against you.

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Its certainly possible to do more complex things, but likely more processing power is needed:
http://gajitz.com/a-bit-of-light-dancing-bizarre-3d-led-curtain-display/?ref=search&utm_campaign=googimages&utm_source=images&utm_medium=other

yeah i've seen that vid and this one..


that's way way beyond what i can do atm..would be cool to do.. but who am i kidding... i'll never be able to pull that off - it's not just hooking it all up, it's doing the animations that will kill the whole thing for me.. besides, i have a few smaller projects to work on atm..