Small update:
If you have used the info supplied in my earlier articles here and here I am happy to announce that Adobe has fixed these issues in AIR3.4 and these hacks are no longer necessary.
In fact, if you want to use 32-bit colour in an Android AIR app, you need to ensure that you don't hack the Activity theme as this will result in forcing the app to 16-bit (something that had me scratching my head for a while!).
So thanks to Adobe for that, now if they can just fix the issues with URLLoader on 3.4+ and the ATF issues on nVidia based tablets then my life would get a lot easier...
If anyone from the Adobe AIR team reads this, please contact me! My team uses your product in ways you probably wouldn't believe and we are constantly pushing AIR to the limits of the technology. It would be awesome to partner with you on the issues we find.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Implementing Artcfox's TLC5940 code on an Arduino, Part 3
Well its been a while... Real Life(tm) has been rather busy!
The code for this post has been gathering bit-rot on my drive so I thought it time to just put it up with a a short post (basically just a code dump) which I will follow up at a later point.
In the previous article we got the Arduino setup with appropriate clock fuse settings so that Matt's code would work. Based on this I took the sample code from CH9 and modified it to implement a small RGB pattern using some of the CH9 features, specifically the gamma correction.
CH9 is based around mulitplexing the output. I haven't used this as I don't have the transistors availabe to test it, so basically the output is still a direct drive of the attached LEDs with one colour per output pin on the TLC5940. However there is no reason that multiplexing shouldn't work. If you want to try it out, refer to Matt's original document and wire appropriately. If you apply the techniques discribed previously to the original CH9 code you should be good to go. You can use the attached code as a reference.
Hardware setup should be the same as per the first article. To see the correct visual output, wire each leg of an RGB LED to output pins 0,1,2 (R,G,B) then 3,4,5 etc. for a total of 4 LEDs. Then compile and upload the sketch and you should be good to go. The code will colour fade between each rainbow colour.
The code is available here. Go get it!
Next time I get a chance to get to the local electronics supplier I'll buy some of the appropriate transistors and wire up for the multiplexing capabilities of Matt's library and post up some wiring info and more code.
For questions etc, follow me:
or mail me at: sweetlilmre (at) gmail (dot) com
-(e)
The code for this post has been gathering bit-rot on my drive so I thought it time to just put it up with a a short post (basically just a code dump) which I will follow up at a later point.
In the previous article we got the Arduino setup with appropriate clock fuse settings so that Matt's code would work. Based on this I took the sample code from CH9 and modified it to implement a small RGB pattern using some of the CH9 features, specifically the gamma correction.
CH9 is based around mulitplexing the output. I haven't used this as I don't have the transistors availabe to test it, so basically the output is still a direct drive of the attached LEDs with one colour per output pin on the TLC5940. However there is no reason that multiplexing shouldn't work. If you want to try it out, refer to Matt's original document and wire appropriately. If you apply the techniques discribed previously to the original CH9 code you should be good to go. You can use the attached code as a reference.
Hardware setup should be the same as per the first article. To see the correct visual output, wire each leg of an RGB LED to output pins 0,1,2 (R,G,B) then 3,4,5 etc. for a total of 4 LEDs. Then compile and upload the sketch and you should be good to go. The code will colour fade between each rainbow colour.
The code is available here. Go get it!
Next time I get a chance to get to the local electronics supplier I'll buy some of the appropriate transistors and wire up for the multiplexing capabilities of Matt's library and post up some wiring info and more code.
For questions etc, follow me:
or mail me at: sweetlilmre (at) gmail (dot) com
-(e)
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