RJ
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I felt bad not seeing any post in here so I thought I explain what the grinch controller is all about.
The Grinch I believe is the least expensive controller you can build. When I designed it as an off shoot of the LedTriks controller is was meant to be for the person who wanted a 64 channel On/Off controller just like the 595 olsen but on a budget. It is basicly just four chips and 4 caps with rj45 connectors. It has no LEDs as they cost, and are not needed to function. It is extremely small and runs using the same olsen plugins in vixen. It can be used anywhere a 595 would be. I do recommend you use the newer Allergo chips and not the mbi's that we first used as some computer ports do not have enough voltage to properly trigger them. But with the newer chips any computer should have no problem running it even laptops that have a hard time with 595 boards.
Both Wayne and Wjohn created coop boards for it and if you want to build the grinch you need to check with them on avalibilty of the pcb's. I believe wayne even created a single sided pcb for the diy pcb makers.
The Grinch I believe is the least expensive controller you can build. When I designed it as an off shoot of the LedTriks controller is was meant to be for the person who wanted a 64 channel On/Off controller just like the 595 olsen but on a budget. It is basicly just four chips and 4 caps with rj45 connectors. It has no LEDs as they cost, and are not needed to function. It is extremely small and runs using the same olsen plugins in vixen. It can be used anywhere a 595 would be. I do recommend you use the newer Allergo chips and not the mbi's that we first used as some computer ports do not have enough voltage to properly trigger them. But with the newer chips any computer should have no problem running it even laptops that have a hard time with 595 boards.
Both Wayne and Wjohn created coop boards for it and if you want to build the grinch you need to check with them on avalibilty of the pcb's. I believe wayne even created a single sided pcb for the diy pcb makers.