Embedded Adventures

The UK's Ministry of Justice commissioned a group of Royal College of Art service design students to consider how to create a more human justice system, and consequently reduces witness dropouts. After many stakeholder interviews and research workshops, the students also developed a communication platform for both victims and witnesses.

At an exhibition at the Royal College of Art, visitors were invited to play an interactive “busszwire game" to demonstrate the emotional journey a witness goes through today as well as how this new platform would enable witnesses and victims in the future.

The students used LEDs in the exhibition to flash when a player makes a mistake in the game and LED matrix displays from Embedded Adventures to count the "droupouts" from the process. Student Julia Schrot, who used an Arduino platform to communicate with the LED matrix display driver, said that this concept was a great starter for discussions around Service Design and their proposal for making the entire experience for witnesses and victims much more bearable and less daunting.

For more on their project, please visit the website: http://judica.info/

We are constantly amazed by how our customers are using our products for all kinds of projects far and wide, big and small. Tell us about your project at myproject@embeddedadventures.com

Creating Big LED Matrix Displays

9 Jan 2014

Embedded Adventures enables customers to create the displays they need, and sometimes that means people put them together.

We have a great example of this type of ingenuity with Bob Paradiso, who put three Embedded Adventures 64x32 LED matrix display together to create one large 15" x 10" display.

All of this is connected through an Embedded Adventures' LED matrix driver (the PLT-1001v4).

Bob updated the PLT-1001v4 firmware to do his bidding - which is easy because it's open source and available for you to change as well. You can click on the image to see a video of the display in action.

Click here to see the video and check out all that Bob is doing on his website.

OLEDs galore

25 Oct 2013

A long time ago, we decided you can never have enough OLED displays. So we've rounded up some really near new models that will bring a nice touch to your next project.

This particular beauty gives you 16 pixels of yellow and 48 pixels of blue OLEDs, giving you a great way to display split-screen style status and updates.

Then again, there's nothing wrong with straight out blue OLEDs:

And if you need something a little bigger, this guy has you covered:

Okay, so it's a little hard to tell from the scale of the picture, but actually you have 1.3" of display space to play with, still with 128x64 pixels, same communications protocols.

LED displays and halloween

17 Oct 13

What do you get if you marry two LDP-6432 displays and some custom AVR software? A spooky halloween!

Embedded Adventurer Doug D even used PWM to get those great fading effects. We love seeing what you are making, send us your pictures to myproject [at] embeddedadventures dot com.

New platforms

15 Aug 2013

We have a great bunch of custom designed LED alphanumeric displays, sensors and LED matrix displays. We found that customers wanted to be able to buy platforms to develop on at the same time, so we are now offering a range of devices.

The Arduino platform is a great way of getting into embedded programming. With libraries that make it easy and its own development environment, it's a great way to start your embedded adventure.

Arduino Uno

Arduino Leonardo

And if you need something with a little more oomph - then the Rasberry Pi is a great platform for develoing on. It runs embedded Linux and gives you a complete computer minus keyboard, mouse and screen, about the size of a credit card.

Rasberry Pi Model A

Rasberry Pi Model B

We hope you enjoy using the new platforms!