How to develop a custom character generator?

Hi all

This question is mainly directed to Darrel Taylor or mister_e, regarding the excellent LCD character generators they have offered. My question is: What software is needed to actually DEVELOP the character generators?

I am in the process of making some LED Cubes, and would like to be able to simply generate the equivalent hex code (or decimal ) - by placing "x's" in boxes and have the resulting value be displayed for the rows. Each box relates to a LED position in a matrix (4 x 4 , 5 x 5, etc, with varying "levels"

The generator software I will need will be similar to the LCD character generators, only with more "boxes", i.e. up to 8 boxes per row, and 8 rows, rather than the smaller 5 x 7 pattern of the LCD
I can actually use the LCD character generator as is for anything up to a 5 x 7 matrix .

The largest cube I hope to build will be an 8 x 8 x8 matrix (512 LED's) , but I am starting small, my first one is a 3 x 3 x 3, using assembly software from other sites, and even though small, the patterns are mesmerizing. I want to use PicBasic Pro for my next ones. Also will be changing the hardware to use a couple of MAXIM 6969 LED drivers.

Can anyone provide a link to where I can find how to develop a character generator ? (or modify the LCD character generator to handle 8 x 8 )?

Thanks

Ken

Mine was written in Javascript and relies heavily on Object Oriented programming.

mister-e's was written in Visual Basic but I'm not sure what techniques he used. And since he's no longer around, we may never know.

If I was going to do it again ... I'd probably use FLASH.

Thanks Darrel

For now I will use one of the existing LCD char generators, since they will be adequate for the 4 x 4 matrix that I am now building. Using one just makes it easier to visualize the various patterns.

Ken

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Originally Posted by ozarkshermit

Thanks Darrel

For now I will use one of the existing LCD char generators, since they will be adequate for the 4 x 4 matrix that I am now building. Using one just makes it easier to visualize the various patterns.

Ken

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Ken,

See if this works, it will do up to 16x16. Written by Ron Diol of Compsys its a great utility.

http://www.compsys1.com/workbench/Be...2/binhex2.html

Mark:

EXCELLENT . . .

That is just what I was looking for.

Thank You

Ken