LED Configuration
Configurations of the nodes and pixels should be inspired by the imagination and visions of the programmer. In a departure from the simulation configurations of the guide, assembly coding is also demonstrated for the workbench fabricated eight point Star demonstration configuration pictured. The LED Display Video demonstrates the star configuration displaying rainbow bursts, color bursts, rotating color bars and white fading bursts from a single programmed microcontroller.
Introduction to Star-Shaped Display
The protocol display program compositions to follow have proven to be quite interested in the visual motion perception and colors presentations when applied to this configuration. The display sequence compositions of this section are for reference in the event that construction of the eight point star configured display hardware is undertaken. The LED’s applied are the bullet node type suspended with commercially available strips and drilled sheet metal center. Either the +5 VDC or +12 VDC nodes can be applied with the single channel protocol controller prototypes of the corresponding voltage. In addition, the node spacing and assembly size can be increased to suit the programmer.
Serial Node Addressing
It is important to remember that, although the LED nodes are configured in an eight point star configuration, the forty-nine nodes of the display are still connected serially and addressed from the first node to the last node of the configuration. The following figure gives a graphical representation of the forty-nine node positions in the eight point star configuration applied in the protocol display projects of this section.