Playing with an 8x8 RGB LED matrix module to get me in the mood for Christmas. Kindly supplied by icstation.com. Discount available on this item:
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Started Date: 22nd Dec, 2014
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Had quite a battle with this one - firstly identifying what this module actually is. It's a Colorduino V1.3
http://wiki.iteadstudio.com/Colorduino_V1.3
There's some demo code for this device.
ftp://imall.iteadstudio.com/IM120410004_Colorduino/Documents/DEMO_CODE_Colorduino.zip
And a blog with more details.
https://123led.wordpress.com/colorduino/
Finally got a Christmas message on the display. But at what point did you work out that the display was fitted the wrong way round?
Code: icsJulian
Discount Amount: 10%
Max Use: 1
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Started Date: 22nd Dec, 2014
Ended Date: 24th Feb, 2015
http://www.icstation.com/product_info.php?products_id=3607
Had quite a battle with this one - firstly identifying what this module actually is. It's a Colorduino V1.3
http://wiki.iteadstudio.com/Colorduino_V1.3
There's some demo code for this device.
ftp://imall.iteadstudio.com/IM120410004_Colorduino/Documents/DEMO_CODE_Colorduino.zip
And a blog with more details.
https://123led.wordpress.com/colorduino/
Finally got a Christmas message on the display. But at what point did you work out that the display was fitted the wrong way round?
Hello Julian, I have two Colorduino cards (blue) and I read somewhere on the internet that some come with the I2C protocol disabled, so do you know of any firmware to enable them? Thanks
websites dead ;n;
Can i get link of libbrary Colorduino.h
Hello these posts are from 2014 so not sure if the same topics are still valid, I got a Similar Board it says HW-426 but looks 100% similar, I am trying to upload code from Arduino IDE using USB to UART but not successful, any help is appreciated
I guess I meant "Happy Christmas and a Very Merry New Year". (Or does Happy Christmas cover it all). 🙂
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Julian and all the fans out there!!
Ah yes, and that season is about to be upon us once again. I found my little display, and hooked her up, but somehow it seemed the code had dissipated from her memory banks over the year; or so it seemed. After hooking the wires up once again, and downloading the codes for it once again, I went to program her, and suddenly that snowflake appeared, she righted herself and is working as well as she did last year, or was it the year before, or the one before that? This year finds us back in South Dakota where the sub zero weather, snow and yes even a bit of sunshine come our way. Today is a glorious day with the temps in the upper 40's (F) and our home is decorated for our Thanksgiving, yet all over the television and stores Christmas is the only topic to b found.
Here it is nearly Christmas, and here I am back at your video to review it once more. I was looking for my satellite radio receiver that I was sure I packed and had along, when I ran into an old hearing aid box, and in that box was my Colorduino still tethered to her FTD programmer. Hooked her up and she is running the demo code. I know I had it saying Merry Christmas before dang it. Now I have to figure out how to program her once again to wish the folks down here in Arizona A Merry Christmas from the windshield of my Class A Motor Home.
It was upside down form the beggining. Theres is a white dirt mark in one corner.
Dear Respected Julian,
Hello from Germany. Many thanks for your precious time, and your awesome tutorials
I have been using your videos as reference. Really working hard on this particular LED matrix and I am not getting it to work at all, We need more updates on this module, May be another video on this, and We would be really happy. Please show us more on the programming and controlling this may be using an arduino via USB or a matrix keyboard to change the text on the matrix display.
We really are waiting for another programming and usage tutorial on this.
Many thanks for your precious time,
Kind Regards
Harsha
Thanks for helping me to get my Funduino led driver board working,Julian. I'm hoping to string a few together and maybe even feed RSS into it. I have made an 8 character red led message unit which scrolls ok using my keyboard so I'm now thinking how an RGB led string would need to be programmed…..probably using the I2C.
Good tutorial. I by one of this but I don´t know how to configure arduino software, I try but I I could not download any scketch. Help please and Thanks.