Do you want to try something different with the LED? If you do, then today is your lucky day.

By using the Texas Instrument TLC5940, you can create a 16 channel RGB LED controller, which known as “LED Painter PCB” too. This PCB has been improved with a neater layout and it is allows easy connection of independent LEDs.

The reason why you need to use the TLC5940 in this project, because it’s easy to navigate and can be controlled with various type of microcontrollers. The characteristic of TLC5940 is each of it has 16 channels with 12 bit grayscale Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control on each specify channel. By using a couple of pins and a serial like interface for the controlling purposes, you then can connect to the TLC5940.

Since this LED Painter PCB is provided without any components, it’s one of the perfect choices for you to assemble into your project.

Although it did require both through-hole devices and SMT components, but this SMT devices are 1206 size and easy for soldered, even you still a newbie in the soldering field!

You will be amazed for what you’ve did in this project, and hope you will enjoy the moment as well. [read]

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