Merry christmas from arduino

This project shows christmas images on a 8x8 rgb led matrix grid

setup

For this project you'll need :

• an arduino nano
• a matrix RGB grid see

arduino plug

To put it your arduino first plug your arduino as follows :

arduino code

clone the project

git clone https://github.com/pmalhaire/christmas.git
cd christmas

install the arduino software if not done.

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide

run the following

arduino christmas.ino

upload the project to your arduino

result

see patern examples

install deps :

pip install -r requierements.txt

run the script for one drawing (here snow4.txt)

python draw.py snow4.txt

show all .txt drawing

python draw.py

Generate new paterns

You can add new paterns and visualise it with python

1. create my_object.txt file in the repo folder
2. fill it with 1 and 0 with 8 lines of 8 bits (don't forget to add an empty line at the end)
3. show the result with python draw my_object.txt

The console log with show the hex values to be used in the christmas.ino

ex:

{0x81,0x24,0x66,0x18,0x18,0x66,0x24,0x81}

MERRY CHRISTMAS !