Peggy 2LE, “Mini Peggy”

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Peggy 2LE, “Mini Peggy”

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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has released Peggy 2LE:

Peggy 2LE (“little edition”) is a diminutive version of our popular Peggy 2 LED “pegboard” an open-source LED matrix display. Peggy 2 is big, designed to fit a 25×25 grid of 10 mm LEDs. Peggy 2LE is mostly the same, just smaller: it’s designed to fit 5 mm LEDs.

What’s New in Peggy 2LE?

Peggy 2LE supports the same basic functionality as the larger Peggy 2: it drives up to 625 LEDs of up to 5 mm size. Still open-source and hackable. Arduino compatible. Code-compatible with Peggy 2– every Peggy 2 program can run on the Peggy 2LE.

The four main differences between the two are:

   1. Peggy 2LE is smaller– about 1/4 the size.

   2. Peggy 2LE does not have a battery box. You can still use batteries if you want to (3xD cell) but a holder is no longer on board. Instead, it’s designed to run off of an ac power adapter.

   3. Peggy 2LE does not have the breadboard-style prototyping area on board. (Did we mention that it’s smaller?)

   4. Peggy 2LE can be built with a hardware serial port.

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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