The LED Coffee Table is another massive LED project that we dreamed up a long time ago. It took nearly 2 years to pull off! We use 64 RGB serial matrices, 4 Atari controllers, and an LPC2106 dev board to create a cooperative game of Pong.
Eeek! Rat's nest. I wonder what the back side of a JumboTron looks like...
A bit hard to see, but you get the idea. It's actually a lot of fun to play! We'll have the LED Coffee Table at Maker Faire Austin this fall. Speaking of Austin - stop by and checkout our booth! We're going to have a ton of blinky stuff, and have soldering workshops to teach basic through-hole and surface mount soldering.
Interested in learning more about LEDs?
See our LED page for everything you need to know to start using these components in your project.
i know someone that did something like this and it cost him a couple thousand and counting.
Look forward to seeing you in town!
What was the cost of this project?
You don't want to know. Start by multiplying the cost of the serial RGB matrix by 64 then add in a couple hundred hours of engineering and assembly. I'm sure we could do if for much cheaper now, but we learned a lot.