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working fully (except that one dude, last row. fixing it as i write this) and i love everything about: the aesthetic, its weight (it's glass, so it's got some heft to it) and just running on 5v. low power, too! now to some programming and this baby is ready...

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BookCatKid2 months ago

How does this work? What are you using here? Genuinely interested.

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Julian Hespenheide2 months ago

a single PCA9685 PWM servo driver can pulse 16 LCDs. multiply this by four and you have four drivers and 64 LCDs. controlled by a single ESP32-S3. all mounted on a 31x31cm custom PCB.

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Julian Hespenheide2 months ago

also the drivers are over I2C so they are easy to daisy-chain. i think this is the most economical way to do this. other options: driving PWM directly form the GPIOs, but then you are limited by your GPIOs of the uC. another option is to use a shift-register (binary only. no PWM)

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Lonliboy2 months ago

This had to have taken so much patience and attention to detail. I love everything about it.

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Julian Hespenheide2 months ago

thank you lonli for the kind words. and you are absolutely right :)

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Michael Grinich2 months ago

@mannay beautiful work. reminds me @xercyn’s “patterned by nature”

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Julian Hespenheide2 months ago

@mannay @xercyn whoa, this is great! someone has mentioned this before but i was only able to find a still picture. i knew already that this was very impressive, but seeing it as a video really shows the scale of the installation :o

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Ricky Retouch2 months ago

Incredible work Julian

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Julian Hespenheide2 months ago

thank you ricky!

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㌐⺅〜サン2 months ago

when will it play Bad Apple

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Chainee2 months ago

Looks like modern take at Pratchett’s clacks.

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Moises Jimenez2 months ago

Cool

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Monty2 months ago

sick!

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KnownUnknown2 months ago

Wow!

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MathMakesArt2 months ago

Absolutely beautiful work, Julian! I'm so in love with this project.

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Julian Hespenheide2 months ago

merci 🤍🤍🤍✨

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mark webster 🪸2 months ago

Looking stellar!

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Julian Hespenheide2 months ago

merci mark <3

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Saumya Solanki2 months ago

You could make stained glass pixel art animations on windows with this :0 render dynamic pixel art for stained glass installations

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ZanBrewer2 months ago

D1 white queen's house

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Rictus 🍥❁2 months ago

So cool!

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rudcode.dev2 months ago

Is that a PLDC?

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Sorry4noname2 months ago

F2 and D1 aren't working, isn't just D1 on the last row.

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