LED

LEDMATRIX
MATRIX

Team Members: Saila Ishrat Annei, Zaima Tasneem, Rokeya Mumtahana Mou, Ayesha Siddiqua Jyoti
Supervisor: Mohammad Rejwan Uddin, Adjunct Faculty, SECS, IUB
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)

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LED displays are often packaged as matrixes The benifits of the project is to enable student to bring into application the theoretical
of LEDs arranged in rows of common anodes and knowledge and practical experiences learnt in school into solving problems that arise in
everyday life as regards visual information dissemination and providing a more effective means
columns of common cathodes, or the reverse They of conveying information which will be cost-effective and energy conserving and with a longer
can be used to display almost anything. Most modern life span. It also involves programming of the desired text and parameter, which will expose
student to the field of programming and embedded systems, registers, it’s also including a
LED sign boards uses various types of matrix boards You can see that in the common anode dot matrix, ROW is the anode of LED and COL is the cathode, communication medium to enable transmitting of the written program and construction of a
while the situation in the common cathode one is opposite. Though for both types, the columns are the
with controllers. In this lesson we are going to interface a pin 13, 3, 4, 10, 6, 11, 15, and 16 and rows are the pin 9, 14, 8, 12, 1, 7, 2, and 5 in the dot matrix.
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single color 8×8 LED matrix with Arduino and display a If you want to turn on all the LEDs at the first r To light up the first LED on the upper left corner, you
need to set pin 9 as high level and pin 13 as low level in the common anode dot matrix; for a common
few characters to experience its charm from the cathode one, set pin 13 as high and pin 9 as low. ow, in a common cathode dot matrix, set pin 13 as low Cost/ Budget
Cost/ Budget
level and ROW 9, 14, 8, 12, 1, 7, 2, and 5 as high level. In a common anode one, set pin 13 as high level
beginning. and those rows as low level. See the figure below for better understanding.
• 8×8 LED Matrix x 1 ===
Introduction
Introduction 120/-
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have advantages such as power saving, long service life, low cost,
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high brightness, a wide angle of view, long visual range, With low-
voltage scanning, 8×8 LED Matrix LED display waterproofness, and • M/M Jumpers ===
so on. They can meet the needs of different applications and thus 120/-
Developed System
Developed System
have a broad development prospect. • Breadboard x 2 ===
8×8 matrix consists of 64 dots or pixels. There is a LED for each Due to the problem of frequent reoccurring uncirculated mass information dissemination as a result of 180/-
pixel and these LEDs are connected to total of 16 pins. the manual or analog means of information dissemination. The project will attract larger viewers and
Generally, there are two types of dot matrix – common cathode and enhance circulation of information to almost all expected audience. It will also serve as a means of • USB Cable x 1 ===
digging into the technology of microcontroller and some other basic electronic components such as Conclusions
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common anode. They look almost the same in appearance. But transistors, resistors and regulators and solid state electronic materials in general because all these will
usually there will be labels for easy recognition. The one with a label be used in the design and implementation of the dot matrix display and ensure that viewers get the
adequate information that is displayed in good and attractive words  • Arduino uno x 1 ===
ending with AX is a common cathode dot matrix and that with BX is The430/-
matrix display of light is made up of LEDs arranged in a rectangular array in such a way that by
a common anode one. See the figure below for how they look like. So turning on or off, picture or image or characters can be displayed. With the help of the dot matrix
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controller, information can be turn into signals thereby turning on and off lights in the matrix in other
the pins are distributed at the two ends of the matrix. Pins at one end
……..technology. All thanks the advent of microcontroller which has made it possible for
to turn on the required display. Hence the need to expand research and development in the LED matrix
(usually the label side) are 1-8 from left to right, when at the opposite display

they are 9-16 from right to left. total

information to be displayed in any format.
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990/-
Future
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Purpose
Purpose Imagine a world where the lights in our homes and workplaces help keep us healthier, more productive, and happier. In this world, students
attend classes in rooms with lighting systems designed to help them learn more quickly and stay more alert. Hospitals use light in unique
ways, flooding the rooms and halls with spectra designed to help accelerate recovery from surgery and rally a patient's natural healing
• An LED matrix is a two dimensional array of LEDs that can be used capabilities. Does this sound like science fiction?Think again. It's human-centric lighting.

to display symbols, characters or even images. Based on the For those not familiar with this new, and seemingly vague, term, human-centric lighting (HCL) is a technology born from the convergence
of LED technology, smart objects, and new findings on how light can be used to enhance our comfort, productivity, and health. Such lofty
orientation of the LEDs in the matrix, there can be two types of goals may seem like a tall order for a humble quantum well device, but its efficiency and unique spectral capabilities are already being
LED matrices.They are Common Row Anode and Common Row harnessed to serve our growing understanding of the profound effects that light has on the human endocrine system, our metabolism, and
even our brains
Cathode.