i have a rgb, led, curtain with 176 leds , 16 colums and 11 rows all together, each led has a Lpd6803 chip on it, and i was wanting to write the name of our band on the curtain, we are called TnT ,does anyone here know of anyone, that has written a program for the arduino, that might work on my curtain, any info would really be appreciated, i have the arduino mega2568, i just got it, and don't know how to program something that complicated yet, i am just learning a little about it so far, thanks and God bless you my friends.
You could use the fastSPI_LED library (Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.) to control your curtain (it's usable for several different LED strip control chips, the LPD6803 is one of them).
If you want more specific help, post the code you already have, a link to the product your using (best: to it's datasheet) and how you wired everything together.
what i have is called a "motion drape" it is made by "chauvet". it is a black cloth curtain 12 feet by 7 feet, and it has 176 led's and they are all wired in series, and each one has it's own lpd6803,it has a dmx and a sd card reader for a controller, i controll it with my dmx mixing board, and it has 30 different effects already programed onto the sd card, but it is just one file and it is called 1284.dat and i can't figure out what program they used to write the dat file with, so i am planing on ordering an sd card controller that comes with a program you can write code for it, but will be in an .led format, and i was hopping before i ordered the sd card reader that maybe i could use the adrino to controll the curtain, thanks and God bless.
As I already wrote, the mentioned library is able to drive the chips in your curtain. You certainly need a powerful power supply but the Arduino is able to drive such "strings". Maybe it's easier to use the Arduino as a flexible DMX controller and use the hardware you already have (Arduino Playground - DMX).
I went to that fast spi site and i downloaded the adrino code for the lpd6803, and i unzipped the folder and i copied it into the adrino libraries folder and when i open arduino it is there but when i load it in the arduino it say it has errors.
this what it says, any help would be greatly appreciated, i am not familular enough to figure out what this means yet, but i would just like to thank you for taking your time and helping me, God bless you my friend.
In file included from BLIP_LED_LPD6803_DEMO.cpp:1:
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:59: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:61: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:61: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:61: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:64: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:64: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:64: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:66: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:66: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:67: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:67: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:67: error: 'byte' has not been declared
C:\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803/BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h:67: error: 'byte' has not been declared
Where does that file "BLIP_LEDS_SPI_LPD6803.h" come from? In my version of the fastSPI library there's no such file. I guess you're compiling something different...
i don't know that is the way it came, could you maybe email me a copy of your file?
Use this link to download the ZIP file: Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.