Chad June 24, 2011 June 24, 2011 Just sharing a taste of my jubilation... more to come (this is my WORKING LED controller with graphic display, although the LED array is not yet wired in)
Origami June 24, 2011 June 24, 2011 Very cool, Chad. Whose controller board are you using? Also, who makes the display? Did the controller board come with a software development kit?
Chad June 24, 2011 Author June 24, 2011 I am using an arduino mega micro computer, the display is a no-name Chinese 64x128 graphic LCD display that I was lucky to find something that resembled a datasheet for (purchased on ebay... long story, but blue GLCDs this size are not as easy to find as I thought they would be) that is based on that is built on a KS0108 (common interface chip). Neither the controller nor the display came with a software development kit, although it is open source and can be found online. After the coding battle I went through on this one (I am capable, but not adept at programming), I was ecstatic to get it doing what I want. All of my originally desired functionlity with the exception of temperature - which I nixed - is working well, I am looking forward to seeing how it looks over my tank Fun project.
Guest thefishman65 June 27, 2011 June 27, 2011 Very nice indeed. I like the seahorse - how many hours did that take .
Chad June 27, 2011 Author June 27, 2011 Thanks all! Making the image actually wasn't that bad, I found a program based on the "processing" language that converts .bmp files to .h files the C based controller can use. I just took a picture that I had taken, really ramped up on the contrast, saved it as a two color bitmap, ran it through the processing program and voilla! I have a handful of images that I used for this project, the one in the picture above is my "startup image" (I later added some text along the lines of "Light Controller by Chad V 1.1." Also, the number you see is a countdown number that the image is visible for). Some of the other images include various dipictions of sun position and a night-time moon position. When I get the whole fixture put together, I will do a build thread showing some of the high points.
NightOwl September 15, 2011 September 15, 2011 Thanks all! Making the image actually wasn't that bad, I found a program based on the "processing" language that converts .bmp files to .h files the C based controller can use. I just took a picture that I had taken, really ramped up on the contrast, saved it as a two color bitmap, ran it through the processing program and voilla! I have a handful of images that I used for this project, the one in the picture above is my "startup image" (I later added some text along the lines of "Light Controller by Chad V 1.1." Also, the number you see is a countdown number that the image is visible for). Some of the other images include various dipictions of sun position and a night-time moon position. When I get the whole fixture put together, I will do a build thread showing some of the high points. Just curious any updates on this?
Chad September 15, 2011 Author September 15, 2011 It is coming along well, I will post an update soon
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