As a beginner to Arduino I'm looking to build a graphical waterfall design for home.
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Since this seems quite dated, anyone knows if there is an updated guide?
Thanks!!
I highly recommend putting this project on the back burner for now. It’s quite complicated for a beginner and can be challenging even for those with some experience. I’m assuming you have basic electronics knowledge and the necessary skills in your toolbox, but this project might require more advanced expertise to tackle effectively.
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I will stop short of saying "not possible" because as a new, self-taught programmer in the days of a new invention called the dot-matrix printer, I learned how to program every "dot" on a sheet of paper to create printed graphics by creating a new character set for each 5x8 (dot) character. I made mistakes. CHR$(0x0C) would sneak in by the hundreds and empty 2500 sheets of tractor-feed paper in five minutes. Eventually, making progress to more graphics and less FF (or qq), a writing neolithic grid-to-art program that translated character squares to hex to paste into program data. Glory days.
I can imagine your waterfall project would be opening and closing a row of pressurized water solenoids like dot-rows on a printed page. It will not be low cost, in time or expense, monetary and personal. Prepare to meet or make no friends until completion.
I don't agree that the thread is dated. If you are looking for a step-by-step guide to building a graphical waterfall, you are very unlikely to find one.
This company will rent or sell you a standard or custom design, and there are probably others. https://www.pevnickdesign.com/