After searching countless pages searching for an answer, I've yet to find a guide or at least code to use an Arduino to control a Rainbowduino LED matrix via I2C. If anyone knows how to simply light up the matrix using code on the arduino, please reply. (in the future I hope to wire a controller to the arduino in order to play games on the matrix, but this is difficult if I don't know how to send commands via I2C)
What Rainbowduino do you have? I have a couple of these http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/rainbowduino-led-driver-platform-plug-and-shine-p-371.html and they have the ATmega chip built in so no need to control via a separate Arduino.
I can program straight to the Rainbowduino, but I also want to include and buttons, hence the need for an arduino.