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+tileLED
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+A very minimalistic driver for 8x8 LED dot matrix displays.
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+Based on an ATmega8 this board can drive a simple LED matrix display.
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+The source code includes a simple demonstration. Paired with a DS1820 digital temperature sensor, the display shows the current temperature.
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+A Blog post on http://www.steffenvogel.de will follow.