wow your getting way ahead of me, i was going to look into the SPI library for the coding since i have no experience with this when i got to this stage. and hey at least you have the dignity to admit when your wrong and fix it. but moving the connections down one doesnt clutter up the circuit, so im happy. and Im just glad that you actually help, unlike 90% of this forum who just seem interested in being sarcastic snobs.
so how about a 2222 npn for the anodes with a 1k resistor? (I have lots of those on hand)I think i saw somewhere that they can handle an amp? isnt the max we figured out earlier to be 720 mA?