24X8 scrolling LED Text with 3 shift registers 74HC595

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jeshra279

Joined Dec 21, 2011
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Dear All,
I am already having a hardware with 3 shift registers 74HC595. So there are 24 columns and 8 rows.
I have a character matrix for alphabet 'D' as

unsigned char MyChar[8]={0x7c, 0x42, 0x42, 0x42, 0x42, 0x42, 0x42,0x7c}

The 8 hex values corresponds to 8 rows of the matrix. Now I want to scroll the 'D' from right to left.
From my knowledge, I know that I have to prepare 24 columns(i.e. 24 bits) data to load while switching the rows.
This I can make in a loop like:

for(i = 0; i<3; i++)

DisplayBuffer =.....

}

now, once the DisplayBuffer[] is created, I can load them on the corresponding rows.
But I am stuck in how to create and update these DisplayBuffer[] while scrolling the text?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Raj.
 
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