Load Google Translate Hello all,
I am a beginner and I am looking for a good project, Something easy like the LED cube.
I will leave the rest of the thinking up to all you guys.
Cheers,
Chris.
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Come on any ideas at all???
Hi Chris,
I have been asking the same question myself here http://www.element-14.com/community/thread/4186, If you read down the thread, Mike Cowgill had an interesting suggestion which involved lighting,
Ally
A very simple, beginner, lighting project would be to light up a row of LEDs. Then have it pulse back and forth like a Cylon helmet or the front of Kit from Knight Rider.
The goals:
1. Light up the bar
2. Light individual LEDs. And lighting certain ones.
3. Then light them in particular orders.
Cabe
Cabe,
Not a bad idea but how would I do it? what would I need? Would that be like a LED chaser?
Chris
A really simple way to experiment with programming is the IQ3 board. You can link up a number of LEDs to some PICs on a board and program them using simple keystokes.
Cheers Michael, I could learn a bit from this project. If you have any other ideas just drop a message here.
Thanks,
Chris.
I have tried to program PICs in the past but it's not really my forte. I tried using PIC kit 2 and PICAXE, even Atmel's Butterfly, but they weren't for me.
I came across the previous version of the IQ3 (unsurprisingly the IQ2) and found it really easy to experiment with. A friend of mine is a fire station officer and asked me if I could design some LED flashing lights to fit on his dashboard. Now I wish I could I say I developed a fantastic high power system, but I didn't, but came up with a simple red and blue flashining system, using Superflux LEDs. Also I experiented with pulsing RGBs to get different colour combinations. Good fun.
Hi Chris
For all the ideas for LED control how about adding Bluetooth and select the LED sequence wirelessly?
kind regards
Hazel
Many people add scenery and buildings to model train layouts. A bit more difficult project would be the inclusion on lights in various windows each with its own control. You might start with an LED and determine the optimum current limiting resistor in series for the light level desired, dim blue light for a tv and harsh yellow light in the kitchen or workspace. Follow up with a powersupply using the 7405 chip and then connect the system to a pair of TTL chips with 4 AND gates each so that different combinations of input will turn on different lights. Finally conncect the input pins of the TTL chip to the parallel port of an old computer (new computers have dispensed with this "printer port"). Remember that TTL "open collector" chips require a pull up resistor on each output (single IC with 8 resistors is easy solution).
Hi Bud,
Why not use a microcontroller to control the LED'S?. You might even throw in some PWM to regulate the intensity (some) of the lights. If you have to restyle the lightprogram you can hook-up the microcontroller to a PC.
Best regards, Enrico Migchels
Here is a very simple project for beginners RGB LED CONTROL with ATMega32 C++
This is one of the first works for students
2x5mm RGB LED with 3xAnodes and 1xKathode
6xBC547C
6x1kOhm between controler pins and bases
3x100Ohm between +5V and 2xCollectors
2x10kOhm between +5V and switch with GND to create logic1
2xTact Switch (second one at the right lower corner with cut off leg.)
Attachement with SprintLayout5 file
If you want something more interesting then try this
Hi Cabe
I want to do a Pedometer project using PIC18F4520-E/P PIC18F4520-E/P microprocessor, Can you advise of the best possible sensor to detect steps taken by user when walking.
when you say beginner projects how beginner do you mean
led name [link]http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Name-Switch-Toy-for-Toddler/http://
wrist watch turn tables [link]http://www.instructables.com/id/wristwatch-turntables/http://
robots [link] http://http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/channel-robots/
greeting cards [link] http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/channel-robots/http://
nes work bench [link] http://http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Workbench-playable-NES/
For more projects go to http://http://www.instructables.com/
hope this is helpful
Emil Robinson
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