8×8 Full-color RGB LED Matrix Driver Module

1.Introduce

 This is a magic RGB LED dot-matrix driver compatible with Arduino .It pairs the M54564 with a single DM163 constant current driver. By using the DM163, it gains three 8+6-bit channels of hardware PWM control of the LED’s freeing up the MCU from having to implement it in software. This gives the ATmega328 more CPU bandwidth for performing other tasks.It is easy to cascade by IIC and Power interface.

2.  Features:

•   8bits colors support with 6bits correction for each color in every dots
•   Hardware 16MHz PWM support
•   Without any external circuits, play and shine
•   Dedicated GPIO and ADC interface
•   Hardware UART and IIC communication with easy cascading
  
•   24 constant current channels of 100mA each
•  8 super source driver channels of 500mA each

3. Pin Instruction

4. Example

Here is a example for how to using the RGB LED Matrix driver board via I2C and the connection as below:

We use FT232RL connect the board to the computer,  wire connection is very simple.

     Board                  FT232RL

    Vcc==========  5V DC

    Gnd========== Gnd

    RXD==========TXD

    TXD==========RXD

Code:

#include 

typedef struct
{
  unsigned char r;
  unsigned char g;
  unsigned char b;
} ColorRGB;

//a color with 3 components: h, s and v
typedef struct 
{
  unsigned char h;
  unsigned char s;
  unsigned char v;
} ColorHSV;

unsigned char plasma[ColorduinoScreenWidth][ColorduinoScreenHeight];
long paletteShift;


//Converts an HSV color to RGB color
void HSVtoRGB(void *vRGB, void *vHSV) 
{
  float r, g, b, h, s, v; //this function works with floats between 0 and 1
  float f, p, q, t;
  int i;
  ColorRGB *colorRGB=(ColorRGB *)vRGB;
  ColorHSV *colorHSV=(ColorHSV *)vHSV;

  h = (float)(colorHSV->h / 256.0);
  s = (float)(colorHSV->s / 256.0);
  v = (float)(colorHSV->v / 256.0);

  //if saturation is 0, the color is a shade of grey
  if(s == 0.0) {
    b = v;
    g = b;
    r = g;
  }
  //if saturation > 0, more complex calculations are needed
  else
  {
    h *= 6.0; //to bring hue to a number between 0 and 6, better for the calculations
    i = (int)(floor(h)); //e.g. 2.7 becomes 2 and 3.01 becomes 3 or 4.9999 becomes 4
    f = h - i;//the fractional part of h

    p = (float)(v * (1.0 - s));
    q = (float)(v * (1.0 - (s * f)));
    t = (float)(v * (1.0 - (s * (1.0 - f))));

    switch(i)
    {
      case 0: r=v; g=t; b=p; break;
      case 1: r=q; g=v; b=p; break;
      case 2: r=p; g=v; b=t; break;
      case 3: r=p; g=q; b=v; break;
      case 4: r=t; g=p; b=v; break;
      case 5: r=v; g=p; b=q; break;
      default: r = g = b = 0; break;
    }
  }
  colorRGB->r = (int)(r * 255.0);
  colorRGB->g = (int)(g * 255.0);
  colorRGB->b = (int)(b * 255.0);
}

float
dist(float a, float b, float c, float d) 
{
  return sqrt((c-a)*(c-a)+(d-b)*(d-b));
}


void
plasma_morph()
{
  unsigned char x,y;
  float value;
  ColorRGB colorRGB;
  ColorHSV colorHSV;

  for(y = 0; y < ColorduinoScreenHeight; y++)
    for(x = 0; x < ColorduinoScreenWidth; x++) {
      {
	value = sin(dist(x + paletteShift, y, 128.0, 128.0) / 8.0)
	  + sin(dist(x, y, 64.0, 64.0) / 8.0)
	  + sin(dist(x, y + paletteShift / 7, 192.0, 64) / 7.0)
	  + sin(dist(x, y, 192.0, 100.0) / 8.0);
	colorHSV.h=(unsigned char)((value) * 128)&0xff;
	colorHSV.s=255; 
	colorHSV.v=255;
	HSVtoRGB(&colorRGB, &colorHSV);
	
	Colorduino.SetPixel(x, y, colorRGB.r, colorRGB.g, colorRGB.b);
      }
  }
  paletteShift++;

  Colorduino.FlipPage(); // swap screen buffers to show it
}

/********************************************************
Name: ColorFill
Function: Fill the frame with a color
Parameter:R: the value of RED.   Range:RED 0~255
          G: the value of GREEN. Range:RED 0~255
          B: the value of BLUE.  Range:RED 0~255
********************************************************/
void ColorFill(unsigned char R,unsigned char G,unsigned char B)
{
  PixelRGB *p = Colorduino.GetPixel(0,0);
  for (unsigned char y=0;yr = R;
      p->g = G;
      p->b = B;
      p++;
    }
  }
  
  Colorduino.FlipPage();
}

void setup()
{
  Colorduino.Init(); // initialize the board
  
  // compensate for relative intensity differences in R/G/B brightness
  // array of 6-bit base values for RGB (0~63)
  // whiteBalVal[0]=red
  // whiteBalVal[1]=green
  // whiteBalVal[2]=blue
  unsigned char whiteBalVal[3] = {36,63,63}; // for LEDSEE 6x6cm round matrix
  Colorduino.SetWhiteBal(whiteBalVal);
  
  
  // start with morphing plasma, but allow going to color cycling if desired.
  paletteShift=128000;
  unsigned char bcolor;

  //generate the plasma once
  for(unsigned char y = 0; y < ColorduinoScreenHeight; y++)
    for(unsigned char x = 0; x < ColorduinoScreenWidth; x++)
    {
      //the plasma buffer is a sum of sines
      bcolor = (unsigned char)
      (
            128.0 + (128.0 * sin(x*8.0 / 16.0))
          + 128.0 + (128.0 * sin(y*8.0 / 16.0))
      ) / 2;
      plasma[x][y] = bcolor;
    }
    
 // to adjust white balance you can uncomment this line
 // and comment out the plasma_morph() in loop()
 // and then experiment with whiteBalVal above
 // ColorFill(255,255,255);
}

void loop()
{
  plasma_morph();
}