Ivan's coupe: seeing RED

[Ivan141]

Still haven't got the RGB led's in the mail, but here's a flattering shot of the hi-po led's i've been using for shits n giggles so far:


It looks very bright, it really isnt, but this is what I get with a 15sec exposure time on my camera. The top of the rpm and speed scales are relatively dimly lit with these LED's, if it doesn't get better with the diffuse LED's then I'm going to glue in some LED's inside the housing to fill in those areas.

Found a nice solution to control all the led's with a single IC that can drive 6 RGB led's using only a 2-wire SPI interface to my microcontroller so this is looking like it might actually turn out half decent.

Apologies for boring the non electronics enclined, but I needed to vent some minor nerdyness.