Build Instructions

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  Step 1

  Wiring

  
  The tricky part was to figure out which pins were the cathodes and anodes from the Led Matrix, once i figured that out having the datasheet and this tutorial as reference it's pretty straight forward, the cathodes connect to the DIG (rows) pins and the anodes to the SEG (columns) pins. I made the following representation for reference

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  Step 2

  Software

  
  Once you confirm you have control over the matrix ( ahahah how does that sound? ) start setting up your machine, first install node.js and test it. Then get the source code from github, navigate to app folder and install the package dependencies using npm.
  
  

  It will download the packages serial-port, socket.io and forever, the last one is quite optional but i recommend to use it if you want to keep the node.js instance running even if it unexpectedly quits, in fact it does that for any kind of script you want to run.
  
  Do not forget to forward your router ip port ( default: 8124 ) if you wan't the instance to be available outside your network. When ready upload sketch to arduino found in the arduino folder, connect it to your computer running node and start the node server.js
  
  

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  Step 3

  Stream
  
  For users to be able to see the LED matrix in realtime you need a regular webcam to stream it, i used the service http://bambuser.com/ using a very low resolution in order to have the less lag possible ( lag will always happen ), i managed to get the best results using Flash Media Live Encoder.

  Hope you enjoy, happy drawings :)
  

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