I have two 1m WS2811 LED strips (60 LEDs each) and plan to get a few more to make a scrolling LED message sign. While I wait for the next few samples to arrive from China, I decided to do what I could with two strips and spiral them together and make a micro circular scrolling sign (20x6, circular):
To do this quickly, I used the font6x8[] structure from the TVout library. I will clean up the code a bit and post it here, in case anyone else has a few of these strips laying around and is bored.
I have posted an article about my code here:
And the source code has been posted to GitHub:
I have never worked with LEDs before like this, so I am sure I will have many improvements as I get time to work on it. Around 1990, I wrote and sold a banner printing program for the old Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 3. Setting dots on an LED strip was very similar to taking the binary fonts and printing them out on a printer. I plan to dig out all my old 8-bit fonts and incorporate them in to this scrolling sign program.
