mfa / seriallolshield

display bars on lolshield using data from serial connection

serial lolshield

purpose

lighten lines on a lolshield based on serial connection data

requirements

• an Arduino (I used a leonardo)
• a lolshield
• Software: arduino 1.0.5 and arduino-mk (in Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install arduino arduino-mk)
• Python

howto

build and upload

you need root to write on /dev/ttyACM0.

sudo make upload

send commands

you need root to write on /dev/ttyACM0.

sudo python send.py

Commands are:

• 1..9 for line number
• A..N length
• Z set
• Y clean one line
• S reset whole display

Examples:

• 3BZ sets in 3rd line 2 dots
• 1AZ2BZ3CZ4DZ5EZ6FZ7GZ8HZ9IZ sets number of dots equal to line number
• S resets display
• 4Y resets line 4

Sources

Charliplexing.[cpp,h] are from http://code.google.com/p/lolshield/ v82.

Licence: MIT