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Lite Brite pegs look like LED's don't they? That's what I though the other day after working on an LED cube for a few hours. I happened to see my da...
Note: The parts in the following list have changed since the video was shot. Use the parts below. Parts 1 Lite Brite 1 Arduino Uno or equivalent. ...
If you bought diffused LED's, you can skip this step. If not.... We want to use diffused LED's for a couple of reasons. If the LED's are clear, the...
If you have the paper that came with the Lite Brite, you can skip this step. Cut a piece of black construction paper to fit the Lite Brite.
Now we are going to layout the LED's on our Lite Brite. I did a quick drawing on the white board that you can see below. With this design, you will ...
In the next few steps, we will be soldering our LED's down. We need to make sure the LED's have the right polarity. Because we have splayed the lead...
Solder the cathodes of each of the five rows together. The cathode is the short or negative end of the LED. You will end up with 5 rows of cathodes t...
Time to solder the anodes together. The anodes are running vertically, and you have 10 columns of anodes to tie together. I chose to simply strip a ...
You will now solder hookup wire to the anodes and cathodes. Going across the top, you will be soldering 10 hookup wires. Going down, you will solder...
This step is relatively straightforward. Each of the 10 anode hookup wires need to connect to the perfboard, through a 100 ohm resistor, then to anot...
Carefully strip and connect the hookup wires to the Arduino. Use the chart below as a reference. For further reference, you can watch me do it in th...
Hookup a USB cable and temporarily close up the case of the Lite Brite. I quickly wrote this code which will count from 0-9 on all digits, except for...
Time to program the Arduino. Feel free to use the code below. You will first need to download the Time library from http://arduino.cc/playground/Cod...
You should now have a working Lite Brite clock! You can set the time by changing the values in the line of code that says - setTime(9,27,0,27,7,2012)...
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