8-bit LED Thing - This is pretty cool!

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Published 2024-07-05
A few years ago, when I was re-discovering my original digital electronics design and breadboard prototyping background, I decided there was a need for a better LED indicator solution.

On first look, the "8-bit LED Thing" is a breadboard friendly 8-bit LED Bar display in a wider 16 pin Dual In-Line package.

But, the secret behind the "8-bit LED Thing" is that it actually contains the brains of a tiny microcontroller, making it a little smarter than your average LED Bar Display.

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Video production setup:
Camera (overhead): Sony ZV-E10 (captured at 4K)
Camera (other): Logitech Brio 4K (captured at 1080p 60fps)
Eakins Trinocular + Eakins 3700W Camera (1080p 60fps)
Mic: Samson C01U Pro USB / Hollyland Lark M1 Wireless
Lighting: Double-row 8520 LED 6000K strip lighting
Capture / Post Prod: OBS / Camtasia
All Comments (8)
  • @MaxintRD
    Excellent compact design. Inspiring video, clearly explaining all the features. The best feature I think is the flexibility, allowing to program it for any other purpose one can think of.
  • @andymouse
    Very Digi and very Cool !.....cheers.
  • @chrisjpf33
    Nice little thing that I didn't know I needed. :-) Tindie order has been placed!
  • @Brian_Of_Melbourne
    I was a bit disappointed, as the presence of the MPU was revealed I was thinking brilliant! Sadly the modes I was hoping for didn't arrive: 1) A latched input sampling mode. One of the mode pins would be the Latch Enable signal. 2) A pulse stretcher mode so short pulses can be seen, this would be triggered on a rising edge. It could also do the same on falling edges with the off-time being stretched. S0: M0 & M1 - Latching with Mode[0] being a low-going LE signal M2 & M3 - Latching with Mode[0] being a high-going LE signal M4 - Pulse stretching, low-going only M5 - Pulse stretching, high-going only M6 - Pulse stretching, both edges M7 - Direct follow, as now
  • @JohnVance
    Really cool! This would be funny to use in the Ben Eater 8-bit breadboard CPU. The LEDs would have more compute complexity than the project itself!