Velleman VM207 Manuale utente
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USER MANUAL
64 LED RGB MATRIX
Table of contents
LED’s get started!
Preparing the 64 LED RGB matrix 3
Data lines 3
Power supply 6
Controlling the 64 LED RGB matrix 8
What microcontroller should I use? 8
Connecting a panel to an Arduino™ Uno 8
Adafruit™ neopixel library 9
Adafruit™ neomatrix library 13
Mounting the 64 LED RGB matrix 17
Mounting holes 17
3D print mounting brackets 18
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Before we go into detail about how to write software and display something on your panel(s) we’ll explain
how to prepare your panel(s) correctly.
Data lines
Before adding power, you need to understand how the WS2812 LEDs are connected to each other. Each LED
acts as a shift register and shifts display data from its input to its output and over to the next LED. That is
how the display data propagates through a panel, from one led to the next. In the VM207, the LEDs are
connected in rows and each row has a returning line so the beginning of the next row can be connected to
the end of the previous row. This feature has the benet that rows are not “zigzaged” and it is possible to
connect more panels together without having to jump through software hoops to control a bigger panel.
Study the drawing below carefully to understand how these LEDs are wired.
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Preparing the 64 LED RGB matrix
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You can see that the panel is not going to work right away because the rst row just ends and isn’t connected
to anything. The display data would just stop at the end of the rst row of LEDs and not continue through the
panel. To use the panel as an 8 x 8 display and let the display data travel to each LED you will have to
connect the pads as shown in the drawing below (indicated by the yellow soldering connections). Just using a
bit of solder to connect these pads is enough.
If you follow the display data pad now, you can see that all rows are interconnected and they effectively
represent a long string of WS2812 LEDs.
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The drawing below shows how you can tile two (or more) panel(s) next to each other by connecting the solder
pads at the sides with some bare wire.
You can see that a row now exists out of 16 LEDs instead of 8.
You can also tile the panels vertically, this is done by just connecting the DATA OUT of the previous row of
panels to the DATA IN of a new row of panels. Be careful as this connection can be fragile when you have larger
assemblies.
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Power supply
Powering the VM207 is a bit simpler. There are 3 contacts labeled DV+, LV+ and GND, they respectively stand
for Data Voltage +, LED Voltage +, and Ground. The WS2812 LEDs that are mounted on the panels are
the 6 pin variant and these have separate pins for the 5 V for the LED die and the 5 V for the IC die inside the
package. So the DV+ pad is connected to all the IC die pins and the LD+ pin is connected to all the LED die
pins. In most occasions you can just connect these two and all will be OK. If you are worried by brown-outs due
to line-loss when you have a lot of panels that are operating at high brightness, you can have the IC dies on a
seperate 5 V supply (common ground!)
So the easiest way to power the panel is as shown in the drawing below:
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SOME THINGS TO REMEMBER
• Keep the data connections as short as possible.
• Do not split the data line as this will not work. (One LED cannot send data to two or more following LEDs)
• The LEDs expect a TTL level (5 V) data signal but you can get an assembly working with an 3.3 V micor-
controller output (but 5V is better...)
• Place a 470 Ohm resistor between the controller data output pin and the input of the rst panel. (This is
not always necessary but it can help when you are having trouble with noisy data lines)
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When you have more panels you will need to place them in parallel. When you are having a lot of panels,
make sure you are using wires of the correct gauge or use multiple wires from the supply to the
panels!
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SOME THINGS TO REMEMBER
• Always use a 1000 µf capacitor (included) in parallel with your power supply.
• Do not turn your power supply on and off with the panels connected as power-up/down spikes can harm
the LEDs on your panel.
• Always connect ground rst.
• Use an appropriate cable to power your panels as these can draw a lot of amps (3.5 A per panel at full
brightness). Line-loss voltage can be a factor when working with these panels.
• Do not stare at the panels at full brightness from a close distance, this can be disorientating.
• Remember that using a lot of panels at full brightness can generate a lot of heat, in some applications you
will have to address this heat build-up (fan, heatsink, ...) to ensure the life of the panels.
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Controlling the 64 LED RGB matrix
What microcontroller should I use?
You can use a lot of microcontrollers or microcontroller platforms to control your panel. But to make things easy
and fast, we are going to explain how you use your panel with a microcontroller platform that is compatible with
the Arduino IDE, like the Uno, Mega, Teensy and many others.
If you do not want to use any of these platforms, you will have to dive a bit deeper and learn how to create
the data stream that is needed to control a bunch of WS2812 LEDs. You can nd the needed information here:
WS2812 DATASHEET.
Connecting a panel to an Arduino Uno
Follow the drawing below to connect a panel to an Arduino Uno. At the moment we use pin 6 as the data output
but this can be changed in the code later. Supply the Arduino with power as well as the VM207 and connect the
grounds together.
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ATTENTION
Do not use the 5 V from the Arduino to power one or more panels. These panels draw to much current for the
regulator on the Arduino. If you do this you could break your Arduino board.
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Adafruit neopixel library
First we will explain the ADAFRUIT NEOPIXEL library. This library written by Adafruit can control a whole bunch
of WS2812 LEDs seperatly. So this isn’t exactly useful when you want to draw text or shapes on your panel but
it is when you want to control each LED separately and do your own thing with it.
You can download the ADAFRUIT NEOPIXEL library here: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPixel (press
the Download ZIP button)
Then you can install this library in your Arduino installation (place the downloaded and unpacked folder in the
libraries folder of the Arduino installation) and then start the Arduino software.
If you now go to: File > Examples > Adafruit Neopixel > simple, Arduino will open that sketch.
The top section of the le that you just opened will look like this:
// NeoPixel Ring simple sketch (c) 2013 Shae Erisson
// released under the GPLv3 license to match the rest of the AdaFruit NeoPixel library
#include <Adafruit_NeoPixel.h>
#ifdef __AVR__
#include <avr/power.h>
#endif
// Which pin on the Arduino is connected to the NeoPixels?
// On a Trinket or Gemma we suggest changing this to 1
#define PIN 6
// How many NeoPixels are attached to the Arduino?
#define NUMPIXELS 16
// When we setup the NeoPixel library, we tell it how many pixels, and which pin to use to send sig-
nals.
// Note that for older NeoPixel strips you might need to change the third parameter--see the strand-
test
// example for more information on possible values.
Adafruit_NeoPixel pixels = Adafruit_NeoPixel(NUMPIXELS, PIN, NEO_GRB + NEO_KHZ800);
What is going on here?
Well the rst part is just about including the Adafruit library.
Then #dene PIN 6 tells the program that PIN equals 6 and that the datastream will come out pin 6 of the
Arduino, so if we want to change that to 13 we would have to change this line of code into: #dene PIN 13
Next, we have the #dene NUMPIXELS 16 line which tells the program how many LEDs are going to be
controlled. So to control 1 panel, this line should look like this: #dene NUMPIXELS 64. If you have 2 panels
this should be 128, 3 panels = 192, and so on.
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Next we see this line: Adafruit_NeoPixel pixels = Adafruit_NeoPixel(NUMPIXELS, PIN, NEO_GRB +
NEO_KHZ800);
This line gives a name to our bunch of LEDs, here this is “pixels”. You could easily change this to “panel” or
something else but you would have to change all the occurrences of “pixels” in the rest of the program.
Then we tell the program how “pixels” (our panel in this case) is build-up: Adafruit_NeoPixel(NUMPIXELS,
PIN, NEO_GRB + NEO_KHZ800);
• NUMPIXELS = We have dened this value earlier in the program. This is the amount of pixels that need to
be controlled.
• PIN = We have dened this value earlier in the program. This is the output pin where the display data-
stream will be located.
• NEO_GRB = Leave this for standard WS2812 LEDs.
• NEO_KHZ800 = Leave this for standard WS2812 LEDs.
Then we have this code which is just a variable that stores a value which will be used as a delay in the main
function. Change this value and the speed at which the for-loop in the loop function iterates will change.
int delayval = 500; // delay for half a second
Below that piece of code there is the setup function that looks like this:
void setup() {
// This is for Trinket 5V 16MHz, you can remove these three lines if you are not using a Trinket
#if defined (__AVR_ATtiny85__)
if (F_CPU == 16000000) clock_prescale_set(clock_div_1);
#endif
// End of trinket special code
strip.begin();
}
The most important part of this piece of code is the strip.begin(); line. This initialises the LEDs. Do not forget
this step in your own code.
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