So, I gave up and went to sleep. Only to wake up and realised that my fucking Nokia 5800 hanged and switched itself off even when its not being used. Yeah, I am not in the best of mood today as I wanted to get this project up and running.
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Finally, after a few rounds of ice cold water, I ripped outall the wires and started all over again, this time in more
systematic arrangement. And also, no more "following"
the LED sequence on the video as I could not get the
nice yellow light perfect from the red/green mixture.
Good thing the circuit can run on 3 volts which means
there would be no bulky batteries. Perhaps I could
push my luck and test it out with a coin cell battery.
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And luckily, I bought some diffuser caps for the RGBLEDs so that the lights from each elements "Mix"
better to give a nicer colour. Its hard to capture
but without the caps, it (the colour) just looks very
uneven. Even at 3 volts, these LEDs are still very
bright. You cannot view directly or your eyes will
definitely go.
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In other words, you're looking at the LED colour in itsown elements instead of the total blended colour.
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And not only that, apart from the common anode problem,the colours form LEDs are not constant, especially when it
comes to displaying White, which was a combination of the
Red, Green and Blue elements inside there. Here, you can
see the LEDs on the left and right are not matching.
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At least I got the spare USB programmer up and running.I need to get a replacement chip puller/inserter as this
does not have a ZIF socket and I have already broken
off the legs of one IC chip, which is not a good thing
since they costs almost Rm20.00 each. Dammit.
Ok, its past three in the morning and I am getting sleepy......... oh, heres the video. See if you like or not, in case I can't meet up with you.
