Daft Punk Idea!

LoyalistRevolt · Post by **LoyalistRevolt** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:14 pm

Well what I wanted to do was to get one of these helmets http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statu ... -punk2.jpg and to put in a line of Red LEDs. And make it display Words and images... I was thinking of making it run off of switches... But my question is does anyone have a better idea on how this could run?[/img]

Post by **Skyone** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:29 pm

Switches?

How about a microcontroller instead?

Mister X · Post by **Mister X** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:08 am

You could probably reverse-engineer a cheap LED signboard, but what would serve you better is a course in digital electronics, to learn how latches and flip flops work.

That said, I only barely remember how to do any of this. Yay college.

Post by **gannon** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:44 am

You could use a uC. There are a few different ways you could do it, my recommendation would be to just light up one row and one column at a time (just 1 led), scrolling down fast (make use of PoV and such). Then you can limit the amount of transistors needed. Think you can either use shift registers or multiplexers for the lines, but you could just use io lines of the uC if there are enough of them.

Post by **Skyone** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:49 pm

To get the true Daft Punk method, use multiplexers instead of PoV.

LoyalistRevolt · Post by **LoyalistRevolt** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:54 pm

Well the reason I wanted to use switches is because I'm not an expert at anything yet I don't even know half the stuff your talking about....So could some one provide links

plz