like i say can we not have somthing a bit more intresting other than flashing leds plz love this site but projects that have been shown lately r very boreing and stale dont mean 2 be rude how a boute some new computer hacks or remote model building hacks or cd burning hacks firm wear hacks plzplz thank u urs sincerely mr s.preece

i have to agree with 1, I do really love this stie but it’s getting a little mundane. This one though was acutally kindof cool, allthough it was the first one in the last couple of weeks that really got my attention. Not from a technically aspect, I just really like led stuff.

Too right furt. This LED hack has upper **AND** lower case! It doesn’t get much better than that! Good times.

you definatly cannot go wrong with flashing leds.

creeps r me: no, ganging up on you would involve non-blog related things like calling people simple minded, or making up funny anagrams of your handle.

look just whant somthing a bit more intresting than flashing leds whats wrong with that

wtf is with you people, i watched the video and its a clever hack, and i feel somewhat drawn to watch it over and over again. So if you can’t add to this, for example; things you would improve on, problems you had building it, etc…, then please don’t comment.

And you are not welcome in our hackaday community, go troll over at i-hacked for that.

Hey Steve, how old are you

Hack a day is a great site. They’re much better than Make where all they do all day is post links to crappy instructables. I remember seeing a link to an instructable for a “laptop shade” that was a cardboard box turned on its side with the laptop in it.

“Freedom of speech” does not imply that the operator of a server/website must use his machine to assist you in the communication of your free speech. Even if not, you would be free to say as you wish; and we would be free to voice our opinions that the manner you are doing it is disrespectful and the content is not useful.

Also, this tends to be an area where the respect to use proper english and not childish “1337″-speak with abhorrently poor spelling is appreciated, and failure to put in the effort to communicate effectively in such a manner is sometimes met with rightful annoyance. It really is disrespectful to not put in the effort to use mature english when in a relatively intellectual forum. (provided that it is an english-speaking forum, of course. Otherwise it would just be silly, like me writing this whole post in Lojban.)

“i thought the internett was all aboute freedom of speach boy was i wrong”

indeed… get your own website and you might have a bit of free speach ;)

“look just whant somthing a bit more intresting than flashing leds whats wrong with that”

The wrong part was complaining about it here ;) Want something different? ’tis but a google search away. Find something new? you could send in a tip and it might end up here.

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In any case, it’s not too bad :P Not a big fan of rat’s nest wiring, but I’ve done worse in the past :p

*marquee

sorry but i agree with steve boreing leds

the idea is good, and the hack is very easy but great!
i like this one, regards

wow all this arguing is really childish. Seems to happen with every hack. i happen to like this hack, even if it’s not technically a “hack”. if you don’t like the recent projects here on hackaday, then build something yourself!

That’s a pretty cool project. It’s Strangely mesmerizing. Lots of other uses for it to… getting familiar with shift registers can help you build discrete logic for dealing with serial data (and thus, more involved hacks).

As for the whiners… If you don’t like what you see do something to change it, submit something you think is a more worthy hack, hack something yourself and submit it. If you have a serious complaint send one of the site admins an email… don’t post comment spam. Not only is it annoying for the rest of us but it’s insulting and rude to the person who’s hack you’re commenting in; it makes you look like a lazy insensitive prick.

If you put half the time you spent writing complaints in the comments with actually finding new and interesting hacks to submit maybe you wouldn’t have anything left to complain about.

Hello all,
Thank you for your comments. The constructive and destructive ones are all helpful for my future projects. Yes, the marquee is simple and pretty straight forward in design. The point was to use it as an office sign, and to make it relatively un-modifiable. I didn’t want my friends and co-workers taking a PIC/Microcontroller out of the sign and reprogramming it, or removing wire-wraps. I do appreciate the suggestions though.

A Note: The last picture on the page is a link to the video. If the hosted video link is offline, just click and view.

-Ben

Ben! Good Job :) Very neat little hack. Could you possibly increase the brightness of the B and K by driving each ‘level’ with a transistor and single current limiting resistor, or even simply redusing the value of the resistors you have used? Cool anyhow.

the stupid whiners and the led hackers need to call a truce. some sort of stupid, whining led hack?

What I like about things like this is that it gives good ideas for beginner to intermediate level hobbyists. Every single thing on here doesn’t have to be a jet pack or something. An LED marquee is really cool, especially if you make it yourself.

I think it’s pretty cool how you did that by strobbing a couple of 555 times through an array of shift registers. All emergency Vehicle Lighting has turned to LED Lighting. Those run on the same theory with the addition of adding output Transistors to give it a bigger push. Nice Approach.