8 Matrixes and counting

We're up to 8 running and updating. Might try to get 12 on one Arduino before I leave work today.

Hooked up and lookin pretty

We're up and running. After alittle hiccup I was able to plug straight into my Arduino and get the trail statuses displaying right away. We're a go. We just need the rest of our boards to be cleared of this hiccup and we'll be good to go.

Final PCB in House.

After a long process, my boards have come in. We're on to the final phase of the build. Big thanks to Stillwell Baker & Screaming Circuits.

The Guitar is installed.

The guitar is installed in Metals Rock!

Art Guitar - better vid

I turned down the input from the computer, this displays the range much better. So the guitar can take input straight from any headphone jack or it has a mic that can listen to the surrounding sounds. The mic input is a little weak, the headphone jack works pretty well as you can see.

Art Guitar side Project

Been on a hiaitus while I'm figureing out the solar power and pcb boards. But here's a video of a side project for Guitar Town happening at Copper Mountain this weekend. This is my art guitar, wonder where I got some of these ideas? It's not perfect by any means, but I basically put it together in 2 days. I had the idea 2 weeks ago but the parts took a long time, and I really haven't had much time to tweak it before this weekend. Gotta say I'm pretty happy with it though.

8 MAX72XX is the limit

I reached the limit on how many MAX7219's can be chained together. That's 8. Good article here, so I'll have to use another 3 outputs on the arduino for my 5th matrix. Photos soon.