A Quick Peek at My New Project: YasPOV!

January 22nd, 2008 in Electronics

YasPOV (Yet Another Small POV), is the name of my latest project. It’s a POV (Persistence Of Vision) toy.

I know there are quite a few out there in different shapes and flavors, but I need to make one myself, my own design and features

Don’t know what is POV and what it can do for you (or at least how it can amuse you)? I’ll give you some info in the next update, very soon… Just google for “pov microcontroller” and I believe you will find enough of similar projects.

The project is based around a PIC16F876 microcontroller… There are various reasons for this, including the fact that I have a lot of them, it has enough pins, enough memory, a single port can source/sink enough current needed for all LEDs, etc.

I will give all the details soon. I will also release everything: explanations, schematics, source code, etc. This way you may see how I’m implementing it, make your own, learn, play and everything else! I may evolve this project over time based on input from other people and my own findings.

And now, the pics…