Sunday, March 18, 2012

5x5 LED Cube

The 5x5 LED cube project version 1.0 is working!



I am making use of 4 shift registers 74CH595N to control the 25 columns and 5 P2N2222A NPN Transistor to select a layer.  Currently I am writing the cube state for a layer out every 7ms.

The soldering of the cube was painful, but at least now I regained a bit of the soldering iron skill that I lost since uni.  Below are some pics of the building of the cube:



 But I must say the most fun of the project was the coding, really enjoyed playing with C again.  My next step will be to port this project from the ATmega328 chip (Arduino) to the MSP-EXP430G2 chip (TI Launchpad).

2 comments:

  1. Hi,
    could you tell me what resistors (value) you use in your project to turn on P2N2222A transistors?

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