Persistence of Vision (PoV)
Because it was quick and because I wasn't getting much done on other projects, I decided to look into Persistence of Vision (PoV) . PoV was fairly simple to set up with the RBBB . I put the RBBB in a breadboard, ran a patch to the ground rail and added in five blue LEDs. I started with a sketch of my own that sort of worked, but not well. So I figured I'd have more luck looking on the Arduino playground . There I clicked on Interfacing with Hardware and searched on PoV. There I found a link to an art icle written in German by someone named Michael Zoellner. I didn't understand the German but the sketch that was linked had comments in English. I made some tweaks to the code to allow for adjustments and ran it. It worked fairly well so I updated the setup so I didn't have to run it off of the USB cable & added battery power. This made it easier to hold it in my hand and wave it in front of a camera. I set up a camera on a tripod, lowered the ISO to 100 and turned d