A ShiftBrite Christmas

December 13, 2008 By 11 Comments

[Garrett] took 30 of his ShiftBrite modules and mounted them to his front fence for Christmas. The ShiftBrite is a serially addressable high output RGB LED. The individual modules are quite adept at applications like this where you’re stringing multiple lights together. They have identical buses on either side, specifically for daisychaining. The installation above looks great.… Read the rest

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Maker Faire 2008: ShiftBright RGB LED module

May 8, 2008 By 11 Comments


We made a point to stop by [garrett]‘s booth at Maker Faire to to see what he had been working on. You may remember him from his random caps locker shenanigans. He’s just recently released the ShiftBright RGB LED module which makes it easy to implement a string of individually addressable LEDs. The module is based on the Allegro A6281 … Read the rest

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