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Starry Night

Take some LEDs and an MSP430

Published in issue 403, June 2010

Starry Night
Armed with a handful of LEDs a few driver chips and a microcontroller you can recreate a little bit of the Cosmos to hang on your wall at home. This unique celestial slide show displays the major constellations and is sure to be a talking point. The software can be easily altered to cater for system expansion.

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