yea thanks i did look at that. let me add some details/rephrase:
I've looked at Basic Stamp and am very close to purchasing one. I've also looked at, and quite like, though they are pricey, the B64CDM range from Nexus
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which have chips built into them.
so my question is this:
can i use java to interact directly with the LED matrix if i have control over the serial port. or do i need to use something else, like assembler or if i use Basic Stamp, then their Basic language.
And if there is a way to use java, do i still need to address each pixel/LED seperately, or is there a way of animating them by some sort of screendump. I've been experimenting with taking a series of gifs, then converting them to a binary series of 1s and 0s. but surely there must be a more efficient way to animate.
do i rather build my own boards, using a LED 8x8 matrix and max7219 chips, which seems pretty scary.
or how would i go about this? what's the simplest and most cost-effective solution. ideally i would want my LED matrixes (i need to build 5) to be 64x32.
any help would be greatly appreciated
thanx
Btw. if you hadn't guessed yet my electronics knowledge is pretty shoddy to say the least