Arduino 8x8 Dot Led Matrix Scrolling Text Calculator

Intro: Arduino 8x8 Dot Led Matrix Scrolling Text Calculator

Hi,

I do it because i need a calculator for my girl friend (i'm preparing a gift for her :))

Anyway, it's easy. I attached standart code for arduino 8x8 dot matrix 7219. Then you can create your text with my excel file and copy codes from the excel, paste to the arduino code editor. But then you have to do something, because i don't finished all codes for excel file. You just copy codes from excel, paste to an editor (i'm using notepad++, it's my personal choise) and add "{" characters to all start of rows and add "}," to all end of rows. That's it!

How you can use the excel file? Very easy. When you open the excel file, you will see some texts (it's written with "1" characters. It's an example and you can change it. Then you can use "left" and "calculate" buttons for scrolling and codes. Thats it. Please try, if you cannot use, write to here, i can help you.

Have a nice day.

Comments

[PerchE]

I wrote this code in C, in my style but my code is much more complicated than yours. How did you write it so simple? For the shifting I'm developing an array of 48 bytes and another array for the carry bit. And writing and updating to the 4 displays requires me 9 for loops. And a lot of arithmetic to the arrays. Your code is much more simple and better. Can you explain to me, but you have to edit your code to do like my code, to scroll letters on 4 displays and start from blank display. Email me [e-mail]

[ravixxx26]

hey bro i need ur help ....i want the circuit diagram plssssssssssssssssssss

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[mkpeker]

Nice project. Thanx for sharing with us.

[onderyilmaz]

You're welcome ;)

[thilagavathis]

can we get codes for displaying small alphabets??

[onderyilmaz]

Tonight i will.

[abbey19]

hi ,

this code working but not scrolling!!!!! just changing character but your video show is that scrolling how is that is the code is different??????

[onderyilmaz]

Hi,

It's scrolling. I am sure about it. Please check everything again.

[abbey19]

unsigned char i;

unsigned char j;

/*Port Definitions*/

int Max7219_pinCLK = 10;

int Max7219_pinCS = 9;

int Max7219_pinDIN = 8;

unsigned char disp1[38][8]={

{0x3C,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x3C},//0

{0x8,0x18,0x28,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8},//1

{0x7E,0x2,0x2,0x7E,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x7E},//2

{0x3E,0x2,0x2,0x3E,0x2,0x2,0x3E,0x0},//3

{0x8,0x18,0x28,0x48,0xFE,0x8,0x8,0x8},//4

{0x3C,0x20,0x20,0x3C,0x4,0x4,0x3C,0x0},//5

{0x3C,0x20,0x20,0x3C,0x24,0x24,0x3C,0x0},//6

{0x3E,0x22,0x4,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8},//7

{0x0,0x3E,0x22,0x22,0x3E,0x22,0x22,0x3E},//8

{0x3E,0x22,0x22,0x3E,0x2,0x2,0x2,0x3E},//9

{0x8,0x14,0x22,0x3E,0x22,0x22,0x22,0x22},//A

{0x3C,0x22,0x22,0x3E,0x22,0x22,0x3C,0x0},//B

{0x3C,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x3C,0x0},//C

{0x7C,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x7C,0x0},//D

{0x7C,0x40,0x40,0x7C,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x7C},//E

{0x7C,0x40,0x40,0x7C,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x40},//F

{0x3C,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x44,0x44,0x3C},//G

{0x44,0x44,0x44,0x7C,0x44,0x44,0x44,0x44},//H

{0x7C,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x7C},//I

{0x3C,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x48,0x30},//J

{0x0,0x24,0x28,0x30,0x20,0x30,0x28,0x24},//K

{0x40,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x7C},//L

{0x81,0xC3,0xA5,0x99,0x81,0x81,0x81,0x81},//M

{0x0,0x42,0x62,0x52,0x4A,0x46,0x42,0x0},//N

{0x3C,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x3C},//O

{0x3C,0x22,0x22,0x22,0x3C,0x20,0x20,0x20},//P

{0x1C,0x22,0x22,0x22,0x22,0x26,0x22,0x1D},//Q

{0x3C,0x22,0x22,0x22,0x3C,0x24,0x22,0x21},//R

{0x0,0x1E,0x20,0x20,0x3E,0x2,0x2,0x3C},//S

{0x0,0x3E,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8},//T

{0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x22,0x1C},//U

{0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x24,0x18},//V

{0x0,0x49,0x49,0x49,0x49,0x2A,0x1C,0x0},//W

{0x0,0x41,0x22,0x14,0x8,0x14,0x22,0x41},//X

{0x41,0x22,0x14,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8,0x8},//Y

{0x0,0x7F,0x2,0x4,0x8,0x10,0x20,0x7F},//Z

};

void Write_Max7219_byte(unsigned char DATA)

{

unsigned char i;

digitalWrite(Max7219_pinCS,LOW);

for(i=8;i>=1;i--)

{

digitalWrite(Max7219_pinCLK,LOW);

digitalWrite(Max7219_pinDIN,DATA&0x80);// Extracting a bit data

DATA = DATA<<1;

digitalWrite(Max7219_pinCLK,HIGH);

}

}

void Write_Max7219(unsigned char address,unsigned char dat)

{

digitalWrite(Max7219_pinCS,LOW);

Write_Max7219_byte(address); //address，code of LED

Write_Max7219_byte(dat); //data，figure on LED

digitalWrite(Max7219_pinCS,HIGH);

}

void Init_MAX7219(void)

{

Write_Max7219(0x09, 0x00); //decoding ：BCD

Write_Max7219(0x0a, 0x03); //brightness

Write_Max7219(0x0b, 0x07); //scanlimit；8 LEDs

Write_Max7219(0x0c, 0x01); //power-down mode：0，normal mode：1

Write_Max7219(0x0f, 0x00); //test display：1；EOT，display：0

}

void setup()

{

pinMode(Max7219_pinCLK,OUTPUT);

pinMode(Max7219_pinCS,OUTPUT);

pinMode(Max7219_pinDIN,OUTPUT);

delay(50);

Init_MAX7219();

}

void loop()

{

for(j=0;j<38;j++)

{

for(i=1;i<9;i++)

Write_Max7219(i,disp1[j][i-1]);

delay(500);

}

}

[onderyilmaz]

You're welcome :)

[ibenkos]

This is awesome! Nice idea, thanks for sharing :)

[jcduplessis]

Thank you for this instructable!