Synoptic Labs

This is a simple snapshot glimpse of something I’ve been working on: a serial LED strip light. Basically instead of all the LED’s being lit at once, there are shift registers which drive the LED’s as part of a big daisy chain.

There are two primary goals for this:

1. make every LED be addressable by driving the serial clock *really* fast

2. drive the clock slower and turn the whole chain into a sort of “light pipe”.. where you turn a LED on at the start and you see it animate down the chain. I have a couple ideas which use such a display.

Besides, circuit layouts look pretty.

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