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Arduino YouTube Play Button

To celebrate 1000 subs on my YouTube Channel, I designed a custom YouTube Play Button.

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Arduino everything right? As a thank you to my first 1000 subscribers I created this YouTube Play Button with an embedded Atmel SAMD21 microcontroller.

  • 1 × ATSAMD21G18A Microcontroller
  • 1 × ESP8266 Wifi Connection
  • 1 × IS31FL3731 LED Matrix Controller
  • 146 × 0603 Red LEDs

  • The boards are fine!

    Sean Hodgins • 11/23/2016 at 20:03 • 0 comments

    I thought I had a board issue that didn't show up until a specific word was printed... See? Watch the horizontal line of the "H". (Obvious Plug!)

    Turns out I flipped two of the LEDs, 35 and 51, so they turn on opposite of each other.

    Don't mind the solder mess.

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tonilinkaaa wrote 07/16/2022 at 18:13 • point

Its great I really like it for https://www.youtube.com/

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Vlad Conut wrote 12/14/2016 at 09:01 • point

any reason why you chose to use both an ESP8266 and an Atmega MCU ? pretty sure the ESP8266 could handle both tasks :)

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Richard Hogben wrote 11/22/2016 at 17:15 • point

Grats on 1K

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Sean Hodgins wrote 11/23/2016 at 21:09 • point

Thanks!

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davedarko wrote 11/22/2016 at 16:35 • point

Hey Sean, nice project! What are the dimensions of the board / will it fit on a 10x10cm2 board? - doesn't look like it, but had to ask. I have to remix this idea for this platform at one point ;)

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Sean Hodgins wrote 11/23/2016 at 21:09 • point

Hey,

Its actually 148 x 104mm. Could be shrunken down, but the led Matrix would have to shrink, and thats a lot of work. Haha 

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