POV (Persistence Of Vision) has been tossed about quit a bit here lately. Michael Jeffery (Michael2727) offered a challenge in a forum message that I took. Always looking for interesting ideas for a new program to occupy my mind.
What came from that with considerable time and effort (a major FUN thing!) was a program that allows the creation and viewing of 5x7 LED fonts. Michael was the creator of the fonts. Not my kind of fun at all.
The program is still a Beta but seems stable and is fun to use. In the long run that says a lot.
I have a web page at http://www.freewebs.com/adub/
<A href='http://www.freewebs.com/adub/' Target=_Blank>External Web Link</a> where you can download the program. The zip file contains a couple of fonts, a couple of picaxe program templates an ini file that keeps track of most of your settings, the exe file, and two schematics for two versions of a POV viewer. The 08 version uses two 08s. (no help file at this time. any volunteers?)
There are three tabs. Left most is the font maker. Center is the message viewer/maker. It allows animated gif files to be created.(Michael's idea. A good one I believe.) The third tab allows you to set your chip selection for the program to make appropriate code for displaying a POV message. Please, feel free to improve on them. The 08 version produces two programs in the same memo box but you can separate them in the Picaxe Programming Editor before running them. The 08s require two chips because of the lack of output pins. I used Serin/out to link and sync the flashing LEDs on the two 08s.
Any comments or constructive criticisms welcome.
Arvin Evans
ps.
Michael Collier, please note, this program was written with Delphi 6 free version (from D3) which I have been using with great enjoyment since it first came out. How long ago? I have forgotten. Still works so why change?
What came from that with considerable time and effort (a major FUN thing!) was a program that allows the creation and viewing of 5x7 LED fonts. Michael was the creator of the fonts. Not my kind of fun at all.
The program is still a Beta but seems stable and is fun to use. In the long run that says a lot.
I have a web page at http://www.freewebs.com/adub/
<A href='http://www.freewebs.com/adub/' Target=_Blank>External Web Link</a> where you can download the program. The zip file contains a couple of fonts, a couple of picaxe program templates an ini file that keeps track of most of your settings, the exe file, and two schematics for two versions of a POV viewer. The 08 version uses two 08s. (no help file at this time. any volunteers?)
There are three tabs. Left most is the font maker. Center is the message viewer/maker. It allows animated gif files to be created.(Michael's idea. A good one I believe.) The third tab allows you to set your chip selection for the program to make appropriate code for displaying a POV message. Please, feel free to improve on them. The 08 version produces two programs in the same memo box but you can separate them in the Picaxe Programming Editor before running them. The 08s require two chips because of the lack of output pins. I used Serin/out to link and sync the flashing LEDs on the two 08s.
Any comments or constructive criticisms welcome.
Arvin Evans
ps.
Michael Collier, please note, this program was written with Delphi 6 free version (from D3) which I have been using with great enjoyment since it first came out. How long ago? I have forgotten. Still works so why change?