Liquid-crystal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (LC-RIS) need hundreds of stable bias voltages, yet most existing controllers are slow, expensive, or hard to scale. This thesis prototypes a lean 64-channel driver that combines one 1 kHz NE555 square-wave source with per-channe
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Liquid-crystal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (LC-RIS) need hundreds of stable bias voltages, yet most existing controllers are slow, expensive, or hard to scale. This thesis prototypes a lean 64-channel driver that combines one 1 kHz NE555 square-wave source with per-channel amplitude control via daisy-chained AD5263 digital potentiometers and OPA4197 buffers. Each channel supplies a continuous ±10 V swing in 256 steps, and a Raspberry Pi Pico streams updates in 31 μs, fast enough not to limit the LC’s millisecond-scale response. The work is still a proof of concept: it has been validated only with 64 channels on the bench, long-term drift and true large-panel scaling remain open questions. Nevertheless, the prototype points toward a practical, low-cost path for future LC-RIS control.