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The PCB has been designed and sent off
08/31/2018 at 20:00 • 1 commentalright, i finally finished the PCB earlier this week and sent it off for production from JLCPCB. and the parts are all ordered from digikey and have already arrived. I'm mostly happy with the overall design. Considering how much time it took me to route the PCB it would have been significantly more difficult to create the same design on protoboard, additionally the protoboard version would have been significantly more fragile which would have been a problem with the intention that this board would be on a spinning platform.
as for the part choice, this all mostly boils down to "i used what i know", the majority of the design is taken up with 595 shift registers and some surface mount transistors on the ground side. so i guess for the time being this project is on hold until i get all my parts in hand to begin moving forward again.
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The Matrix is Complete and Plan Going Forward
08/25/2018 at 18:19 • 0 commentskind of bit off a lot more than i could chew here, the matrix i'll be using is a 10x11 RGB matrix. I was originally going to just go with using perfboard but i'm now thinking it'll be worthwhile to just get a PCB produced to run this project considering the number of LED's that need to be controlled.
the next update will be when I've got the board in hand!