William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
>>> I wonder if there is any such project which can drive these
>>> large no. of LEDs and also provide a mechanism to design lighting =20
>>> effects
>>> favorably through a linux box. any such thing in this planet ?
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>
> You might want to look at the cubatron projects from 3waylabs.
>     http://www.3waylabs.com/projects/cubatron/
>     http://www.3waylabs.com/projects/brc/
> They've done about that many LEDs, animated at 50 frames/sec, with a =20
> linux box as the top level controller.  There are some technical =20
> details, but it's not in any sense "published" in the details.
>
> It seems that Mark's strategy is to make each "voxel" an independently =20
> addressable RGB LED, after which it's just a matter of communications =20
> protocol, wiring, and software...  And money, of course.
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Addressable LED pixels are available pre-made or you can roll your own=20
easily.

One Chinese seller is Ray Wu: http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/701799

The WS2801 RGB driver chips are cheap and easy to interface to.
David...

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