Do I have double vision? Here are two PSoC 4 Pioneer Kits rigged up for testing. I just thought this looked novel. If you looked carefully you might have noticed that I have installed a connector to each of the Pioneer Kits' Pmod compatible ports. I've…
Being Thrifty like a Radio Ham Oh right, I am an Amateur Radio Ham and being so we like to make reuse and recycle stuff wherever possible. I'm taking the punt that I can successfully use a Pioneer Kit an external PSoC 4. This is described stealthily in…
Pioneering Pmodifications Pmods are a quick way of getting peripherals connected and working. They are trademarked and designed by Digilent for use with their CPLD and FPGA training kits. The designers of the PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit had the foresight to include…
PSoC - The Electronic Duct Tape Literally, within seconds I had my first SPI project up and working. Just plop a SPI Master onto the Schematic Diagram. Hook up the input and output pins (internally). Reconfigure the input pin to use a resistive pull up…
Preparations With my own deadline of the week before Christmas I commenced procuring the important parts for the prototype. These are the PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit and WS2812B LEDs. Element14 Australia had the Pioneer Kits in stock and they arrived the next…
Proof Of Life Another boring photo but it shows 9 panels (2,304 LEDS) being driven by a single PSoC 4 and my one of my secret circuits. Anyone for TV tennis as a side project? I could have used colour but decided of a low brightness white. Each panel…
LEDs Have Some Fun Here's another 5,000 RGB LEDS! They've just arrived and are hermetically sealed to keep the moisture out to keep the fresh like vacuum sealed food. The more the merrier I say! Asking the obvious question How does one get 3,000 let alone…
A Star is Born! I've made and a PSoC 4 Controller PCB and Star LED board and both work very well. The plan is to have lots of stars and light up the galaxy. Although a PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit can be used for ISP and debugging, I have used a MiniProg3. The…
Introduction Every single year Christmas displays become more elaborate. What started out a set of fancy incandescent light bulbs on a tree and a string of coloured incandescent lights on a house in the 1960s has now become a full light stage show with…
Processing Power Here's the result of creating, importing and drawing the font for the LED display. With the font captured in a 256 colour .BMP file for useable mspaint editing, I needed to import it into my program. I've done this using Processing 2…
The Font of all Knowledge I'm furiously working away at creating content for my display. One important aspect is a presentation font. To really make it stand out I have redrawn a font based on one that I created back in the 1970's. This font uses double…
My Smarter Life Please sit back, relax and enjoy this video. It was filmed on location in Sydney Australia. Whatever you do don't miss the end.
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WHAT 3000+ LEDS LOOKS LIKE My first LED order was placed on the 16th September and they've finally arrived 12 weeks later. This has been my most troublesome eBay purchase to date. The story from the supplier was that the LEDs were sent off on 16th September…
