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16 years ago

Electronics Newbie question concerning LEDs

Hi all, I am an electronics newbie, and I am trying to design an guitar that has a light up fretboard. To do this I need to control about 120 individual, single color LEDs, and I am having trouble...
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16 years ago

Thanks for the quick responses guys! I originally was planning to turn on half of them at a time to learn scales but if that isn't feasible I might just do a max of 6 at a time (one for each string). I actually considered the strobing, but it seems to be difficult to program and I'm not sure what external buffers do. Would I need those for the cyclone too?

Thanks again for the advice!