This semester, I have taken an interest in my Computer Logic Design course. I spent a few hundred dollars at Radio Shack before I realized how cheap it was to order these things from other countries. I have purchase a simple bread board, several basic logic gates (and, or, nand, nor, xor, xnor, etc), a few dozen LEDs, some switches, wires, and various other miscellaneous items.
Originally, my goal was to create a binary clock over Thanksgiving break. This task was easily accomplished in an hour. I've set my goals a little higher now. I ordered ten 8x8 LED matrices and ten LED logic IC's. MAX7219 is the chip I am planning on using. As soon as these items arrive I am going to take a shot at building a Tetris game using 6 of the matrices aligned to build a 16 x 24 grid. The board will be 10x20 and I'll use the extra space to display scores. I will be using the Arduino Uno as my main micro controller. However, I don't think I will have enough I/O switches on a single board so I am planning on getting a second Arduino chip to control the remaining LEDs.
C'mon China chips, get here soon.
