Gadget Freak: LED Message Board 16161

Rich Quinnell, editor in chief of Microcontroller Central, created an LED hand message board to display a message in the air.

Using persistence of vision, the LEDs trace out a message in mid-air when the hand is waved back and forth. Rich got the idea after a reader sent in a picture of himself waving a circuit board with LEDs that displayed a message in the air. He modified the original software so he could have a choice of different messages.

Rich Quinnell's hand message board uses LEDs to trace out a message in mid air when the hand is waved back and forth.

Some improvements Rich suggests are adding a keyboard for an unlimited amount of messages, and to make the one inch of text space bigger so the messages can be seen from further distances.

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