Tuesday, April 11, 2017

LEGO Grand Carousel with HT16K33 Breakout, LEDs, Slip Ring Upgrade

Thanks so much to forums user trueger for sending this in – this is such an incredible upgrade to the already impressive Grand Carousel LEGO kit!

Check out the work that went into upgrading this kit:

Watch the video below to see it in action. More documentation, code, and other assets can be found here.

Amazing!

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Featured Adafruit Products!

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Adafruit 16×8 LED Matrix Driver Backpack – HT16K33 Breakout: This is the magic sauce in our 7-segment and matrix backpacks, now available in breadboard-friendly breakout board format. The HT16K33 is a neat little chip that has the ability to drive a multiplexed 16×8 matrix (that’s 128 individual LEDs). The communication protocol is I2C so it uses only 2 pins, and you can have up to 8 selectable I2C addresses so thats a total of 8 matrices, each one controlling 16×8 LEDs for 1024 total LEDs. Read more.

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