Post by thread:[OT] How not to engineer...

::http://www.hownottoengineer.com/projects/rgb-led-cube.html Interesting, there is though an error in the schematics, the anode driving transistors are PNP and he has the pin designators as NPN. Colin -- cdb, spam_OUTcolinTakeThisOuTbtech-online.co.uk on 7/04/2012 Web presence: http://www.btech-online.co.uk Hosted by: http://www.justhost.com.au This email is to be considered private if addressed to a named individual or Personnel Department, and public if addressed to a blog, forum or news article.

> http://www.hownottoengineer.com/projects/rgb-led-cube.html Very well made and executed, but unfortunately the novelty soon wears off. It just doesn't have enough resolution to display anything useful. If it was at least 64 x 64 x 64 (512 x 8*8*8 modules) then you could really do somethin

.... (not) enough resolution to display anything useful... Hmm. I was thinking Bach; guess my age is showing... :

>> http://www.hownottoengineer.com/projects/rgb-led-cube.html > > Very well made and executed, but unfortunately the novelty soon > wears off. It just doesn't have enough resolution to display anything > useful. If it was at least 64 x 64 x 64 (512 x 8*8*8 modules) then > you could really do something I strongly disagree with this. I have a 4x4x4 RGB cube I built some years ago (from a kit) and I still enjoy watching it occasionally. It isn't an ability to generate images, but rather the visualizations that make it interesting. -- Bob Ammerman RAm Systems