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• ok.  thanks for the incredibly detailed reply.  i was thinking of connecting all of the leds of each color to one chip in case i wanted to try to tweak the color balance.  still 16*2.1*.03 is only about 1.4 watts.  or .92 watts if i run at 4v.  gues…

  in mbi5026 Comment by mtbf0 July 2014
• yeah, i use a lot of rbbb's and diavolinos.  it's a shame there's not a jumper on the leonardo to tell the 32u4 to turn itself off.

  in Question about triggering Art Controller by RTC alarm before purchassing it Comment by mtbf0 July 2014
• why not just put the arduino into a low power sleep state and let the rtc wake it up directly?

  in Question about triggering Art Controller by RTC alarm before purchassing it Comment by mtbf0 July 2014
• i downloaded the svg from wikipedia and was unable to do anything with it.  then i peaked at the source and noticed that each of the elements of the image is in its own group.  select each element and ungroup it, (ctl-shift-g), and you will be able …

  in Inkscape help for Egg-bot Comment by mtbf0 January 2013
• hey, if you're up for a little coding adventure, you could charlieplex 6 of the i/o lines on the scanner to drive up to 30 leds.  i did it once on a minipov with 64 leds, (sinking 8 leds on each of eight pins),  and didn't blow out any of the i/o.

  in Larson Scanner Kit with 27 LEDS Comment by mtbf0 December 2012