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Arduino Cylon Eye

Written in C++ using arduino

This is a geeky little project I did while I was kind of bored.  I figured I might as well post it up, since it might be useful to someone.  This just takes an array of LEDs hooked up to the PWM outputs of the arduino and smoothly oscillates along them, similar to the effect of the eyes from the cylons in Battlestar Galactica.  I know it is really geeky, but it was actually more effort than I though it would take.  I'm pretty happy with the version I have posted now.  it works, it looks pretty cool, and  it shouldn't be leaking memory or slow down over time.  

I hope you find some use for it.  At some point, I might consider charlieplexing the LEDs and getting some more resolution, but I just need some more experience and materials.  It's under the cyloneye directory on the github project.