1 Electronic Basics #5: How to Multiplex
A GreatScott introduction to multiplexing LEDs, linked whenever someone wants to drive many LEDs from a few microcontroller pins.
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A GreatScott introduction to multiplexing LEDs, linked whenever someone wants to drive many LEDs from a few microcontroller pins.
GreatScott's 10x10 LED matrix build using addressable LEDs, often held up as a good starting point for wall-mounted LED displays and backlit panels.
GreatScott's guide to adding WiFi to a project with an ESP32, cited for showing the board checking a web page and updating an LED matrix.
Bitluni's LED wall build is pointed to as a project to follow for a large RGB matrix, including using ping pong balls as diffusers.
An explanation of multiplexing LEDs in rows and columns to save pins, linked for both plain and RGB LEDs and for how the diodes keep unwanted ones dark.
A large hand-soldered LED matrix project linked mainly by its own maker as context for power supply noise and assembly questions, with no wider verdict offered.
Recommended for its approach to mapping LEDs in irregularly shaped displays, so normal XY drawing functions can be used on unusual layouts.
An Arduino spectrum analyser on an RGB LED matrix, linked as an example for anyone wanting to build a similar audio display with published code.
GreatScott's guide to building an LED matrix is credited as practical help for first RGB display projects driven by an Arduino.
Shows Paul Stoffregen's Teensy based OctoWS2811 system driving thousands of addressable LEDs as a video wall, cited when people ask how to run large LED displays.
A creator-shared display with LEDs inside ping-pong balls, built from two 8x8 matrices and MAX7219 drivers, offered as an example for similar builds.
An introduction to a microphone module with automatic gain adjustment, linked in Arduino threads as a design to borrow for LED matrix projects.