Moving message display Using Atmega32

This is my very first blog post and I do not expect it to be very nice. Anyway I have to start somewhere.

I have always wanted to play with LEDs and micro-controllers and after some of this, I stumbled upon this project

I went ahead and implemented it. it was very beattiful as seen on the video. I encountered the following problems with the hardware.

• the dispaly was based on the 89c51 which has limited resourses therefore not accomodating longer messages. 
• the messages were stored in an external EEPROM which was hard to get

With the above in mind I got myself thinking how to implement the same project using a micro=controller that has more resources hence make the display more versatile. I had already started writing code for Arduino and WinAvr for Atmega mcu therefore I decided to give it a go.

After editing the code quite a bit I was able t port the project to atmega32.

download it here and enjoy.

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