Transparent LED Matrix Display with Arduino

A monochrome (single colour) LED dot matrix display

is used for displaying the Characters and Symbols
which is interface with a microcontroller. This project
will deliberate on displaying a scrolling text message
on a 8×8 LED dot matrix display. The microcontroller
used is Arduino Uno which is open-source prototype
electronic platform. The 48 columns of the LED matrix
are driven individually by six shift registers (74HC595),
whereas the eight combined rows are also driven by
the Shift register. Here we will be scanning across the
rows and feed the column lines with appropriate logic
levels. The program in the microcontroller is to
determine the speed of the scrolling message as well
as Message what we are going to display. The
technique will be demonstrated for right to left scroll
but can be easily implemented for scrolling in other
directions. The Sketch program for Arduino Uno is
developed with Arduino Software.

Components Required

 1 * Arduino
 1 * 16mhz Crystal
 2 * 22pf Capacitor
 1 * 10K Resistor
 42 * 220 Ohms Resistor
 1 * Dote Board
 7 * 74HC595 IC
 1 * ULN2803 IC
 7 * 16pin IC Base
 1 * 18pin IC Base
 1 * 28pin IC Base
 2 * Male Hader
 2 * Female Hader
 2 * 7805 IC
 1 * 100uf- 25V Capacitor
 2 * 10uf - 50V Capacitor
 1 * 5 Way Gang Board
 1 * DC Socket
 1 * SPST Switch
 384 * 5mm LED.
 2mtr * Flat Ribbon cable.
 2 * female Header.
 1 * 2mm PVC Pipe.