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I've just started using this stuff http://www.florymodels.co.uk/weathering-wash/ It's like the oil washes but totally water soluble. Great stuff!

The "problem" with the microcontrollers is that it's almost too easy to make them very flexible, but that then incurs all the other costs. I thought for quite a while when I was designing this what was in and what was out and it ended up a compromise between cost, size and flexibility that...

The controller is available... but my marketing sucks

I've been offering it as a "programmed to your specifications" device, but it still needs a modicom of soldering experience to connect up

There's more details & examples here http://www.antsnest.net/LEDDriver.php

Ant

Ah - shame, it would be good to see that one finished too!

Ant

Just finished this project - very similar to another WIP here (can't find that now) and based on the Apollo 27 liftoff lighting that some dude did in Japan. Using my own controller for this to flicker the engines and pulse the beacons - each main engine sits on a tube with a LED at each end. The roc...

Depends what the controller has to do, and if you are looking for a completely bespoke design. You're probably looking at $10-$20 of cost-price parts max - but if you have to factor in someones hourly rate to design and build a controller, then that's probably a couple of days labor. What would a ga...

Here's an analogy - not a very good one, but hopefully you will get the idea... Think of the current in a circuit as cards driving down a road. The battery can supply a large number of cars coming out one after the other as quickly as possible. The LED is a small bridge in the road. If the cars come...

Remember though - in parallel, each LED needs its own resistor!

Ant

I'm in the UK and am currently working on a generic microcontroller driven lighting board - more details here

http://www.antsnest.net/LEDDriver.php

The hardware is good to go, I'm just looking for good applications at the moment.

Ant

I put together an ATMega based system for the Pegasus Area 51 UFO last year (Video here http://www.vimeo.com/8074653 ) and now have reduced the design down into a cheap generic 8-channel LED driver than can be used in many other projects, each coded up to requirements. I've recently had 50 PCBs made...