My Wiki: Arduino Colordunio And SVG Projects

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This is a page listing a few dabbles with the Ardunio and Colorduino. I have used SVG to simulate an 8x8 colour display and JavaScript to animate it.

I decided to order a Colorduino. Before it arrived I used an SVG image in a web page, and JavaScript to set the "LED" colours.

I used SVG-edit to setup an 8x8 matrix and JavaScript to animate the display.

 http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/led8x8.svg - first simple javascript animation

I ported some Colorduino examples I found on the interenet:

  Colorduino_Schematic_and_Demo_Code_demo - just the graphics and fonts tables.
  Colorduino-master 
  Colorduino-v124
  colorduino i2c demo

http://wiki.iteadstudio.com/Colorduino http://wiki.iteadstudio.com/Colorduino_V1.3

Here are some SVG graphics with animations using javascript:-

Created with SVG-edit - http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/

JavaScript added by Doug Rice

 snapshot of led8x8_3 saved from IE:-

 http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/led8x8.svg - first simple javascript animation
 http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/led8x8_2.svg
 http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/led8x8_3.svg - colour pattern, red and green
 http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/led8x8_4.svg - colour pattern, green and blue
 http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/led8x8_5.svg - colour pattern, blue and red

 snapshot of led8x8_fonts saved from IE:-
  
 Another snapshot of led8x8_fonts saved from IE:-
 
 http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/led8x8_fonts.svg  - Colorduino_Schematic_and_Demo_Code_demo
 http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/led8x8_fonts2.svg - Colorduino_Schematic_and_Demo_Code_demo - font table

 Plasma display:   https://github.com/lincomatic/Colorduino/blob/master/ColorduinoPlasma/ColorduinoPlasma.pde 
 ported to JavaScript for SVG

 http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/led8x8_plasma.svg

  Colorduino_Schematic_and_Demo_Code_demo
  Colorduino-master
  Colorduino-v124
  colorduino i2c demo

 http://wiki.iteadstudio.com/Colorduino
 http://wiki.iteadstudio.com/Colorduino_V1.3

Colorduino_Schematic_and_Demo_Code_demo needed some work to build it. I added:

/* comment out Pins_Arduino_h by defining Pins_Arduino_h as it was giving a compile error*/

 #define Pins_Arduino_h

/* http://katalytischerkonverter.com/2014/10/04/colorduino-tutorial/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Lampduino-an-8x8-RGB-Floor-Lamp/step16/Programming-the-Colorduino/

Another way is to use the embedded FTDI chip in an Arduino Duemilanove. Simply pop out the ATmega MCU from the Duemilanove board, and make the following connections between the two boards:

I used the UNO and set the BOARD type to Arduino Duemilanove in the IDE.

   Arduino RX  ->  Colorduino RX
   Arduino TX  ->  Colorduino TX
   Arduino Reset -> Colorduino DTR
   Arduino 5V -> Colorduino VDD
   Arduino GND -> Colorduino GND

Then, you can connect your Arduino to your PC via USB, and select Arduino Duemilanove or Nano with ATmega328 from the Tools->Board menu of the Arduino IDE.

remove uno chip and use

 1 - RESET 
 2 - RXD
 3 - TXD
 7 - VCC
 8 - GND

/* comment out Pins_Arduino_h by defining Pins_Arduino_h as it was giving a compile error.*/

 #define Pins_Arduino_h

Useful Webpages

  http://tutorials.jenkov.com/svg/index.html
  http://tutorials.jenkov.com/svg/scripting.html#svg-scripting-example

  http://www.petercollingridge.co.uk/data-visualisation/using-javascript-control-svg

  https://github.com/lincomatic/Colorduino/blob/master/ColorduinoPlasma/ColorduinoPlasma.pde

Other SVG trys

  http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/lights.svg
  http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/lights3.svg
  http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/lights4.svg

  http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/mimic.svg

  http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dev/mimic_train2.svg

  http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dtmf/dtmf1.svg - exploring decoding dtmf tones.

  http://www.dougrice.plus.com/dtmf/dtmf1_g.svg - IIR