a couple years ago i made a pair of shoes that spelled words in the air as you walked, the cost was a little high for mass production, but now it’s looking like i can do this on the cheap
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I’ve always wanted to put one of these on my car antenna. What about building a larger version of one of these?
It is a very cool design no doubt….
But cheap? C’mon, it’s $465 do build one!!!!
Anyone check out the home page? This builder chick is nerdy and hot! -jj
http://web.media.mit.edu/~ladyada/bio/index.html
It isn’t really $465 for 1. it is $465 for 100.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~ladyada/make/minipov/hardware.html
It isn’t really $465 for 1. it is $465 for 100.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~ladyada/make/minipov/hardware.html
I was thinking about making one of these, but how do you program it? It’s pretty usless if you can’t get any words to be displayed.
okay, most of us have seen those tire valve caps with LEDs on them, that give a neat effect when the wheels are spinning…. now, if you could find a way to put one of these babies onto the wheels of your car…
Just built one of these (on a breadboard for now), and it is as fun to play with as it looks. As for the question of how to program it, you need a pic programmer. I got mine off ebay for about $20. Pictures of orignal program and my change to say “MATT” on http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/mbwasser/Flashing/
this may be a stupid question, but could i program an 18f2550 pic to do this? i am getting a couple in the mail tomorrow, and was wondering if i could use them for this, if you couldn’t tell, im VERY new to electronics and was looking for a simple project to get me started.