LEDarcade: upping your LED game

If you have an Adafruit LED matrix, like many people you may have ran the demos then put it in a drawer. Or maybe you were a little more ambitious and loaded a project that requires the display.

You may have even decided to start drawing graphics and text, creating your own functions, and then moved on to other more exciting projects.

I however spent the past 5 years (on and off) creating my own library of functions as part of my Arcade Retro Clock RGB project.

LEDArcade

I decided to pull out some of these functions and share them in a separate project called LEDarcade.

LEDArcade has many classes, functions, pre-defined sprites that are used to do the following:

• draw a sprite
• move a sprite
• make a sprite float across the screen
• draw colorful animated sprites floating across the screen
• draw text of multiple sizes
• scroll text left or right at various speeds
• multiple ways to clear the screen (zooming in / zooming out / fading)
• scroll the screen around a large map, displaying only a section of the map in a window

There are many more functions available but they are fairly complex. As this project moves forward I will create more examples and document each function.

I hope you can use these functions in your own project. Try it out and give me some feedback.