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Originally Posted by kiettyyyy
You must be mistaken. We also used the Holtek HT16K33 I2C LED driver. It's just hiding underneath the displays on ours.
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This is 100% my mistake. I saw the awesome board the The Holy Cows used in 2015 while at the Shenzhen off-season event this past year (how I missed it at champs when we were alliance partners is beyond me). We reached out a few times to discuss the design but didn't get a response.
We proceeded to design our own with no knowledge of the components of the board (we thought they were pin mapping). We found the HT16K33, as it is a low cost I2C LED driver that quite a few people use including Adafruit, and apparently also the Holy Cows design.
In the rush to release this before kickoff (it just barely made it), circling back with 1538 and giving appropriate credit is something that we did not do and I am deeply sorry for this. It was a mistake that I take full responsibility for.
In light of this we will be making sure to give credit for this board to the people that inspired it, Team 1538 / The Holy Cows and will work with them farther to try to rectify the mistake.