mtXcontrol is an editor written in Processing to easily create image sequences for the Rainbowduino controller. The Rainbowduino is a 8x8 RGB LED driver controllr created by seeedstudio, based on the Arduino Project.
With mtXcontrol Editor you can draw points, lines & rows in different colors, create multiple frames and manipulate them. Add, delete, move, fill, copy & paste of frames is supported. Play all frames by different speed, realtime update the controller and save your work to file or upload it to Rainbowduino to make it standalone (mind: due to 256kb memory only up to 10 frames can be stored by now). A special feature is typing letters and numbers. Future versions aim to support multiple controllers and
Check out this short demo video
Download sources here: github mtXControl Project
mtXcontrol consits of two parts: One is the Editor program which you run on your computer, the other is the firmware you have to upload to your rainbowduino first. See instruction here. The firmware make use of the Rainbowduino.h Library to manipulate the Matrix easily. Make sure to put it into your Arudino Library. Connect your Rainbowduino via USB to your computer uploa firmware and you are ready to go - happy mtXcontrol drawing!
- Mac/Win/Linux System running Java
- Processing IDE, get it from here
- Arduino IDE, get it from here
- Rainbowduino + 8x8 RGB LED Matrix, get it from here
- Draw multicolor points, line and rows (8bit color support)
- Add, delete, clear, fill, copy & paste, move frames
- Draw letters and numbers, Font configureable
- Save & Load to File
- Upload and Download to Matrix EEPROM (mind: due to 256kb memory only up to 10 frames).
- Frame preview, easily navigate through
- Standalone Mode or realtime Rainbowudino Update
- Keyboard shortcut for each function
- Use compression to save more frames to EEPROM (e.g. Huffman?)
- Font configuration
- Support for multiple Rainbowduinos
- Standart import/export file format
- Support other devices
- More colors
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ENTER - switch between record /place Mode
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<left/right ARROW> - Frame forward/backward (Record Mode) or Speed in Place Mode
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SPACE - Insert Frame after current Frame
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S - Save to File
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L - Load File
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D - Delete Frame
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C - Clear frame
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F - fill frame
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command+C - Copy Frame
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command+V - Paste Frame
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ctrl+ - Insert this Letter/Number
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crtl+<left/right ARROW> - Move Frame in direction
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alt+ENTER - connect/disconnect to Rainbowduino
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alt+<left/right ARROW> - Adjust speed on Rainbowduino
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alt+L - download from Rainbowduino
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alt+S - upload from Rainbowduino
This project is part of the seeedstudio carnival 2009
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Copyright © 2009 RngTng
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