Sure Electronics 2416

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Thank you all for taking an interest.
Just got my new board from sure electronics, I have loved playing around with the 7219 and a single matrix which I did many different things with. I thought this would allow me to create more designs and applications with.

I have had several problems being that I am unable to find a library that works. I have tried all the ones I could find of you tube and major ones. I now know there's a difference between the red and GREEN one which i have.

I found a library that worked (ish) and the axis was a little muddled. It took me **oody ages to find and I have just deleted the .h file. So sorry I was unable to pass it on to you. On the brighter side here is a video of me using it. I have the green one 16*24

Could someone supply me with a library that allows some basic xy setting eg. matrix.setled(x,y,true) I like to work just of that. And could someone also give me the suitable pin connections too, I find it incredibly hard to find it out :confused: Thanks very much

TrevorB

#include "HT1632.h"

#define DATA 2
#define WR   3
#define CS   4


HT1632LEDMatrix matrix = HT1632LEDMatrix(DATA, WR, CS);


void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  matrix.begin(HT1632_COMMON_16NMOS);  
  matrix.fillScreen();
  delay(500);
  matrix.clearScreen(); 
}

void loop() {
 

}

I liked this libary, it was just what i wanted. but didnt work with my matrix, plus lost the files for it

Video:

P.S I will honestly pay the person 3 quid who finds a working library trevor.boultwood@hotmail.co.uk

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Here is the library used:

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Would appreciate any response

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It's been a while since I've adapted two dotkloks as presents, which originally were designed by Andrew O Malley http://www.technoetc.net/dotklok/. Like you I had big problems finding working libraries since sure apparently has 2 versions of 2416s. (Don't know if there have been new changes in the design in the last two years...)

The library Andrew's using is one of Bill Westfield who, as WestfW, has written a lot about Sure's displays on this forum (http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,21819.0.html). It's a pity I can't find a link to Bill's original library and guess he hasn't been updating the libraries concerning these dot matrices for a while. Andrew designed his clocks two years ago, you can find the original library (that worked for me using arduino 22) in his code, but I'm afraid you'll need to make it compatible with Arduino 1+.

Just having googled Bill I notice a lot of people used/adapted his library in the last two years and hope one of those may work for you.