I'm a newbie trying to figure out how to change the message being displayed on this direct drive 8x8 led matrix.
In the example code below it only works with the patterns variable that I need some help to figure out how to update in the void loop. What I'm looking to do is just display the time taken from an RTC (ds1307).
Any help would be much appreciated!
http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/DirectDriveLEDMatrix
/*
* Show messages on an 8x8 led matrix,
* scrolling from right to left.
*
* Uses FrequencyTimer2 library to
* constantly run an interrupt routine
* at a specified frequency. This
* refreshes the display without the
* main loop having to do anything.
*
*/
#include <FrequencyTimer2.h>
#define SPACE { \
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0} \
}
#define H { \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0} \
}
#define E { \
{0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0} \
}
#define L { \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0} \
}
#define O { \
{0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0}, \
{0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, \
{0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0}, \
{0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0}, \
{0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0} \
}
byte col = 0;
byte leds[8][8];
// pin[xx] on led matrix connected to nn on Arduino (-1 is dummy to make array start at pos 1)
int pins[17]= {-1, 5, 4, 3, 2, 14, 15, 16, 17, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6};
// col[xx] of leds = pin yy on led matrix
int cols[8] = {pins[13], pins[3], pins[4], pins[10], pins[06], pins[11], pins[15], pins[16]};
// row[xx] of leds = pin yy on led matrix
int rows[8] = {pins[9], pins[14], pins[8], pins[12], pins[1], pins[7], pins[2], pins[5]};
const int numPatterns = 6;
byte patterns[numPatterns][8][8] = {
H,E,L,L,O,SPACE
};
int pattern = 0;
void setup() {
// sets the pins as output
for (int i = 1; i <= 16; i++) {
pinMode(pins[i], OUTPUT);
}
// set up cols and rows
for (int i = 1; i <= 8; i++) {
digitalWrite(cols[i - 1], LOW);
}
for (int i = 1; i <= 8; i++) {
digitalWrite(rows[i - 1], LOW);
}
clearLeds();
// Turn off toggling of pin 11
FrequencyTimer2::disable();
// Set refresh rate (interrupt timeout period)
FrequencyTimer2::setPeriod(2000);
// Set interrupt routine to be called
FrequencyTimer2::setOnOverflow(display);
setPattern(pattern);
}
void loop() {
pattern = ++pattern % numPatterns;
slidePattern(pattern, 60);
}
void clearLeds() {
// Clear display array
for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
leds[i][j] = 0;
}
}
}
void setPattern(int pattern) {
for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
leds[i][j] = patterns[pattern][i][j];
}
}
}
void slidePattern(int pattern, int del) {
for (int l = 0; l < 8; l++) {
for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
leds[j][i] = leds[j][i+1];
}
}
for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
leds[j][7] = patterns[pattern][j][0 + l];
}
delay(del);
}
}
// Interrupt routine
void display() {
digitalWrite(cols[col], LOW); // Turn whole previous column off
col++;
if (col == 8) {
col = 0;
}
for (int row = 0; row < 8; row++) {
if (leds[col][7 - row] == 1) {
digitalWrite(rows[row], LOW); // Turn on this led
}
else {
digitalWrite(rows[row], HIGH); // Turn off this led
}
}
digitalWrite(cols[col], HIGH); // Turn whole column on at once (for equal lighting times)
}