This is the second option for Blinkenlights (also will be on order) Pros: Seems to have a decent set of tools to program for more than just blinkenlights Freakishly small Freakishly Cheap Cons: needs to be programmed from scratch (that's okay) Still need to decide on which teensy to buy! Brian Hague On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Brian Hague <alphaseinor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Speaking of blinkenlights: > This is a USB LED controller, could be used for our common goal of > more blinkenlights... I've got one on order for my haiku case design, > I'll be integrating this product if I can get it working right. > > http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=82&products_id=239 > > Pros: > already a product > ***Relatively Cheap*** > > Cons: > haven't tried it yet > Not open source > Needs resistors... the instructions have you resisting the cathode > not the anode in the instructions... not sure why, just bump up the > number of watts you need for the array. > don't have the driver written (yet). > > here's the install document > http://groovygamegear.com/PDF/LEDWIZv2_INSTALL.pdf > > Here's their resident software (not open source): > http://www.groovygamegear.com/ledwiz.zip > > It'll do RGB LEDs so long as they have a common anode. so, for 32 > outputs (divided by 3) we get 10 LEDs(with some outputs left over). > They also have multiple device IDs, so we can just add one more to > make it 20. > > Brian Hague >