Arduino as a DCC Programmer

I know some readers have been waiting for me to actually start on PrgmrArduino, my library for DCC programming with Arduino. Those readers will be pleased to know that I’ve made the first steps in that direction, and the initial code is available on GitHub. Right now, the library is only capable of Direct Mode writes, and is completely untested, but perhaps even that much is useful? For complete details on PrgmrArduino, including the hardware requirements (which are non-trivial), please see the reference page on this...

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Introducing TLC5941, an Arduino Library for Controlling LEDs

TLC5941 is an aptly named library for interfacing Arduino with Texas Instruments TLC5941, TLC5940, and TLC59401 LED drivers. The library offers a tidy object-oriented method for controlling an arbitrary number of TLC594x chips, each of which provides 16 discrete channels with 4096 levels of dimming per channel. Powerful stuff. Works great with LED...

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