Matrix 8x8 Led "HI"

Just matrix 8x8 led saying hi

Mar 14, 2020

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Rotary potentiometer (generic)

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LED Dot Matrix Display, Red

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Male/Male Jumper Wires

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USB-A to B Cable

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Arduino UNO

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Anonymous user

5 years ago

If I read that circuit and code correctly, you are driving the Arduino pins way to hard. For starters, there are no currently limiting resistors, so an LED (or set of LEDs) that are turned on will drive the Arduino pins to their maximum available current. The LEDs will not actually go to 5 volts that the Arduino attempts to set, so the voltage on the Arduino pins will be pull down (and up from ground) to the provide the maximum current the microcontroller pins are capable of. Second, the LED maxtrix has 8 LEDs (everything in one column) tied together to a common row line. Which means that the power (or sink) for everything turned on at once in a single column has be provided by the Arduino pin connected to that row. So if the whole column is turned on at once, 8 LEDS worth of power is flowing through a single pin. Even with current limiting resistors, that would be too much. This needs some form of row driver, as well as current limiting resistors on each column.