(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/11/day-11-thing-11-led-arrays/)
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Today I got 2000 little leds in the mail.
They are really bright. So of course I had to play around with them. I made 2 8×8 arrays one is made of magnet wire with no supporting background. I will figure out if I am going to mount this on somehting later. In the mean time I built one on a perf board. Both took for EVER to make. The one on the perfboard is wired to a maxim 7219 led driver to be driven by an arduino.
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