Saturday, July 16, 2011

LED Matrix pattern designer

LEDmatrix pattern designer is a tool used to generate matrix(2D) patterns in hex numbers for displaying LED matrix using a micro controller.

It is based on Qt framework and hence cross platform. It supports up to 16x16 matrix size. You can increase it by making minor changes in the sourcecode, but 16x16 is enough for most cases. This is done from the same pace of my previous project - ChaserDesigner. Only you need to do is that, specify the 2D pattern either manually or using the enhancing tools provided by the software. Then you can generate it's hex equivalent by a single click. A 2D pattern can be scanned either horizontally or vertically. The scanning mode can be switched in the software while making frames.

I think most of the features of the software are self explanatory. If you have any doubts, please comment. All files associated with this project are free to download.
Project source(Linux, Windows)
Windows executable
Required dlls for Windows executable

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Please send exact locations where dll file placed

Tom Varghese Konikkara said...

You can place the dlls in the same folder where the executable exe file lies. Alternatively, you can copy the dlls to system32 folder also, but not recommended.

Unknown said...

first i am installed qt 4.8.6

placed all dll files in system32


but it shows "the procedure entry point _z21qregisterresourcedataipkhs0_s0_ could not be located in dynamic link library"

Tom Varghese Konikkara said...

@nelson antony Can you try paste the dlls in the same folder where the exe is running.
If it's not working, do this. You already installed Qt in your system? It is not required to install that. But since you already installed it in your system, one thing you can do is you can rebuild it from source. Link to download the source is given in the post. Download and unzip it. Open the project using Qt Creator. Then Build the program (Ctrl+B) and run the program (Ctrl+R)