LED Cave Eyes, Multiple LED

Nov 24, 2005 6 Replies

Hello Everyone, This one may be a toughie. I am trying to make a setup like Bill Bowden has on his website for Cave Eyes.

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He is apparently discontinuing them. I have plenty of Red 5mm Led's, so here is what I want to do. I want to make 10 pairs of Red LED's look out from a Halloween Prop of a trash can laying on it side, to make it appear as if Rats are peering out at the "customers" This means 20 LED's hooked up into 2 pairs. Bowden's design shows a microcontroller with a IN4001 Diode. I hope to not have to go to all that trouble. I would prefer to have a simple power supply (Say, 4 AA Batteries, and hook it to a single board that could power 10 pairs of LED. I want it to be simple to take apart, meaning I would prefer to not run them all in parallel, but to have each pair independent so I can place them in the frame I'll build in the trashcan. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.



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Why is this tough ??

The web site shows the schematics and gives you the code !!!

Replace the74hct154 with LEDs connected directly to the micro. Any 18 to 28 pin PIC can do this, and you can modify the code (which is given) to handle the 10 output lines.

So, let us know what you have done.

donald

THe web site only give a hex file. Load the hex file into MPLAB and dis-assemble.

You want all of them to flash randomly, on for a short time then off for a long time?

He probably doesn't have a programmer for the micro.

One possible solution, though, would be to use one blinking LED for each pair of 'eyes'. The other would simply be connected in series with the blinker. Do they still sell blinking LEDs?

Regards, Bob Monsen Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. - Joseph Fourier

Thanks to all who responded. Ian, yeah I would like them to flash randomly, but with what Donald is saying I think I understand now. I will get a 12c508 and wire them to it and play with the code. Thanks to all again. This google group thing is great! Rick

This is not google groups. This is the usenet, and google groups is a generally inferior way of accessing the usenet.

Usenet is one of the oldest computer network communications systems still in widespread use. It was established in 1980 following experiments the previous year, over a decade before the World Wide Web was introduced and the general public was admitted to the Internet.

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martin

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