12 LED KITT-scanner

Prototype of the KITT-scanner on a small piece of veroboard

12 LED KITT-scanner
The famous visual effect from the TV-series Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider







A 12 LED KITT scanner with trail.

Often this kind of gadgets have no trail effect, but just a single LED moving visually back and forth. In the TV-series Knight Rider or Battlestar Galactica you saw clearly a trail effect in the visual motion, the same way you see in the gif animation on this webpage. Here one with a trail effect, using an ATtiny15L or ATtiny13 AVR microcontroller, the applied technique called charlieplexing.

Download hex file for ATtiny13  *.hex file.

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