ATtiny/POV Shield

ATtiny/POV Shield

A POV display shield for the Proto 0.03 board. The ICSP headers allow easy uploads of new words in the display.

POV Shield 0.01

A simple test with some recycled parts on a piece of stripboard. Five smd leds from an old TV remote, enabling a way to expose the bottom of the stripboard with smd leds.

List of materials

Item	Pieces
Stripboard	8x20 holes
Led	5x
100 Ohm Resistor *	1x
Maleheaders	2x4
Wire	various lenghts

* brown black brown

Breadboard setup

The example below is a piece of perfboard. It is easier to use stripboard of the same dimensions and cut a breakline straight throught the middle.

Connect all the Cathode (-) together throught the 100 Ohm resistor with GND.

Leave the Anodes separated and connect these like below:

LED 1 (top) - 3 (Analog Input 2 / Pin 4)
LED 2 - 2 (Analog Input 3 / Pin 3)
LED 3 - 7 (Pin 2 / Analog Input 1, SCK)
LED 4 - 6 (Pin 1 / PWM, MISO)
LED 5 (bottom) - 5 (Pin 0 / PWM, AREF, MOSI)

Example

Top	Bottom

The POV Sketch

/*
  POV for ATtinyPOVshield
  Boardtype is ATtiny85 @ 1MHz (internal oscilator, BODdisabled)
*/
int delayTime = 2; //sub-char delay time
int charBreak = 5; //char delay time

int LED1 = 0;
int LED2 = 1;
int LED3 = 2;
int LED4 = 3;
int LED5 = 4;

void setup()
{
  pinMode(LED1, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(LED2, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(LED3, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(LED4, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(LED5, OUTPUT);
}

int a[] = {1, 6, 26, 6, 1};
int b[] = {31, 21, 21, 10, 0};
int c2[] = {14, 17, 17, 10, 0};
int d[] = {31, 17, 17, 14, 0};
int e[] = {31, 21, 21, 17, 0};
int f[] = {31, 20, 20, 16, 0};
int g[] = {14, 17, 19, 10, 0};
int h[] = {31, 4, 4, 4, 31};
int i[] = {0, 17, 31, 17, 0};
int j[] = {0, 17, 30, 16, 0};
int k[] = {31, 4, 10, 17, 0};
int l[] = {31, 1, 1, 1, 0};
int m[] = {31, 12, 3, 12, 31};
int n[] = {31, 12, 3, 31, 0};
int o[] = {14, 17, 17, 14, 0};
int p[] = {31, 20, 20, 8, 0};
int q[] = {14, 17, 19, 14, 2};
int r[] = {31, 20, 22, 9, 0};
int s[] = {8, 21, 21, 2, 0};
int t[] = {16, 16, 31, 16, 16};
int u[] = {30, 1, 1, 30, 0};
int v[] = {24, 6, 1, 6, 24};
int w[] = {28, 3, 12, 3, 28};
int x[] = {17, 10, 4, 10, 17};
int y[] = {17, 10, 4, 8, 16};
int z[] = {19, 21, 21, 25, 0};

int eos[] = {0, 1, 0, 0, 0};
int excl[] = {0, 29, 0, 0, 0};
int ques[] = {8, 19, 20, 8, 0};

void displayLine(int line)
{
  int myline;
  myline = line;
  if (myline>=16) {digitalWrite(LED1, HIGH); myline-=16;} else {digitalWrite(LED1, LOW);}
  if (myline>=8)  {digitalWrite(LED2, HIGH); myline-=8;}  else {digitalWrite(LED2, LOW);}
  if (myline>=4)  {digitalWrite(LED3, HIGH); myline-=4;}  else {digitalWrite(LED3, LOW);}
  if (myline>=2)  {digitalWrite(LED4, HIGH); myline-=2;}  else {digitalWrite(LED4, LOW);}
  if (myline>=1)  {digitalWrite(LED5, HIGH); myline-=1;}  else {digitalWrite(LED5, LOW);} 
}

void displayChar(char c)
{
  if (c == 'a'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(a[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'b'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(b[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'c'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(c2[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'd'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(d[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'e'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(e[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'f'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(f[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'g'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(g[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'h'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(h[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);} 
  if (c == 'i'){for (int it = 0; it <5; it++){displayLine(i[it]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'j'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(j[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'k'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(k[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'l'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(l[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'm'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(m[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'n'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(n[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'o'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(o[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'p'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(p[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'q'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(q[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'r'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(r[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 's'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(s[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 't'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(t[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'u'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(u[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'v'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(v[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'w'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(w[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'x'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(x[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'y'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(y[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == 'z'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(z[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == '!'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(excl[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == '?'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(ques[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  if (c == '.'){for (int i = 0; i <5; i++){displayLine(eos[i]);delay(delayTime);}displayLine(0);}
  delay(charBreak);
}

void displayString(char* s)
{
  for (int i = 0; i<=strlen(s); i++)
  {
    displayChar(s[i]);
  }
}

void loop()
{   
  displayString("great!");
}

Connected as shield to the Proto 0.03 board

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