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Re: Poor man's PWM

From David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups comp.arch.embedded
Subject Re: Poor man's PWM
Date 2020-01-30 10:29 +0100
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On 29/01/2020 18:57, Paul Rubin wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>> The way I have seen big LED signs done is with chains of LED driver
>> chips.  Each chip supports 8 to 24 chains of LEDs...
> 
> Another idea might be use Neopixel strips or whatever those things are
> officially called.  Each LED has its own chip inside so you send it an
> RGB value and it lights up at the color and brightness you tell it.
> They are addressible, there's an older style with a timing based
> interface, and a newer style that uses SPI directly:
> 
> https://www.adafruit.com/product/3919  etc.
> https://www.adafruit.com/product/2240  These are the SPI ones
> 

I haven't seen LED's with controllers built in before, but it doesn't
surprise me that they exist.  Thanks for the links and hints - these
(the LEDs themselves, rather than the strips) could be interesting
devices for some applications.

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Poor man's PWM Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2020-01-27 17:53 -0700
  Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-27 19:29 -0800
    Re: Poor man's PWM Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2020-01-28 20:11 -0700
      Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-28 20:11 -0800
  Re: Poor man's PWM David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-01-28 11:29 +0100
    Re: Poor man's PWM Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2020-01-28 20:34 -0700
      Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-28 20:32 -0800
      Re: Poor man's PWM David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-01-29 12:53 +0100
  Re: Poor man's PWM Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2020-01-28 14:43 +0100
    Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-28 12:03 -0800
    Re: Poor man's PWM Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2020-01-28 20:54 -0700
      Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-28 21:54 -0800
        Re: Poor man's PWM Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2020-01-29 00:17 -0700
          Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-28 23:40 -0800
            Re: Poor man's PWM Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2020-01-29 00:54 -0700
            Re: Poor man's PWM Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2020-01-29 00:04 -0800
              Re: Poor man's PWM Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2020-01-29 02:17 -0700
        Re: Poor man's PWM David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-01-29 13:21 +0100
          Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-29 09:51 -0800
            Re: Poor man's PWM Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2020-01-29 10:07 -0800
              Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-29 10:14 -0800
                Re: Poor man's PWM Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2020-01-29 10:28 -0800
                Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-29 11:40 -0800
                Re: Poor man's PWM David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-01-30 10:25 +0100
                Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-30 08:06 -0800
                Re: Poor man's PWM David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-01-30 21:21 +0100
                Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-30 15:08 -0800
                Re: Poor man's PWM David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-01-31 01:17 +0100
                Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-01-30 17:21 -0800
                Re: Poor man's PWM David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-01-31 10:59 +0100
                Re: Poor man's PWM Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2020-02-01 10:18 -0800
            Re: Poor man's PWM David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-01-30 10:20 +0100
              Re: Poor man's PWM Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2020-01-30 10:13 +0000
          Re: Poor man's PWM Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2020-01-29 09:57 -0800
            Re: Poor man's PWM David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-01-30 10:29 +0100
      Re: Poor man's PWM Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2020-01-29 16:34 +0100
  Re: Poor man's PWM Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2020-01-28 17:39 +0200
    Re: Poor man's PWM Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2020-01-28 19:58 -0700
      Re: Poor man's PWM Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2020-01-29 18:54 +0200
  Re: Poor man's PWM Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2020-01-29 00:17 -0700
    Re: Poor man's PWM David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-01-29 13:39 +0100
      Re: Poor man's PWM Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2020-01-29 10:08 -0800
  Re: Poor man's PWM Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2020-04-27 20:13 -0700

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