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Skull 8x8 LED Matrix Arduino

Send bytes to an 8x8 LED matrix and create a skull.

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Skull 8x8 LED Matrix Arduino

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO
Arduino UNO
×1
LED Dot Matrix Display, Red
LED Dot Matrix Display, Red
×1
Jumper wires (generic)
Jumper wires (generic)
×1
Breadboard (generic)
Breadboard (generic)
×1

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE

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Schematics

LED 8x8 Matrix

In this diagram, the LED 8x8 Matrix has ports 1-8 at the bottom.

Code

Skull LED 8x8 Matrix

C/C++
void setup() {
  
pinMode(2, OUTPUT);
pinMode(3, OUTPUT);
pinMode(4, OUTPUT);
pinMode(5, OUTPUT);
pinMode(6, OUTPUT);
pinMode(7, OUTPUT);
pinMode(8, OUTPUT);
pinMode(9, OUTPUT);
pinMode(10, OUTPUT);
pinMode(11, OUTPUT);
pinMode(12, OUTPUT);
pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
pinMode(A2, OUTPUT);
pinMode(A3, OUTPUT);
pinMode(A4, OUTPUT);
pinMode(A5, OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
  
delay(1);
digitalWrite(12, HIGH);
digitalWrite(A2, HIGH);
digitalWrite(A3, HIGH);
digitalWrite(A4, HIGH);
digitalWrite(A5, LOW);
digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
digitalWrite(11, LOW);
digitalWrite(10, LOW);
digitalWrite(9, LOW);
digitalWrite(8, LOW);
digitalWrite(7, LOW);
digitalWrite(6, LOW);
digitalWrite(5, HIGH);
digitalWrite(4, LOW);
digitalWrite(3, HIGH);
digitalWrite(2, HIGH);

delay(1);
digitalWrite(13, LOW);
digitalWrite(12, LOW);
digitalWrite(A2, LOW);
digitalWrite(A3, LOW);
digitalWrite(A4, LOW);
digitalWrite(10, HIGH);
digitalWrite(4, HIGH);
digitalWrite(3, LOW);
digitalWrite(11, HIGH);
digitalWrite(8, HIGH);

delay(1);
digitalWrite(A2, HIGH);
digitalWrite(A3, LOW);
digitalWrite(A5, HIGH);
digitalWrite(7, HIGH);
digitalWrite(3, LOW);
digitalWrite(2, LOW);
digitalWrite(5, LOW);
digitalWrite(A4, LOW);

delay(1);
digitalWrite(A5, LOW);
digitalWrite(7, LOW);
digitalWrite(11, LOW);
digitalWrite(8, LOW);
digitalWrite(A3, HIGH);
digitalWrite(3, HIGH);
digitalWrite(12, LOW);
}

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