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I am a student doing my HSC and saw a YouTube video showing a 10x10 matrix which uses an Arduino board and RGB LED strip (WS2812B). My project is to help students with numbers and algebra.

I need the strip to count from 1-100. I have found a simple code in Arduino example from downloading Fast LED library and picked FirstLight. I manipulated the code by simply changing the values. I had the strip counting up by 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and so on. I need buttons so that the students can press it and be able to count up numbers by whichever number they want but I don’t know how I’m going to code it or connect all of them together. I’m not very good at coding, would you be able to give me a hand?

Thanks

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We don’t want to take all of the fun out of your HSC project! Though if you find that it becomes too hard to remix someone else’s code to do something a different, then it might be worth building something from the ground up.

https://core-electronics.com.au/tutorials/ws2812-addressable-leds-arduino-quickstart-guide.html

The above guide will walk you through how to use WS2818 LEDs from a low-enough level that it could be remixed for anything. Using an array for a 10x10 image, along with a couple of constants which hold the patterns for each number, you could whip this up with a couple of functions.

Here’s something we did with a Raspberry Pi a little while ago, perhaps you’ll find some inspiration to make use of bigger pixel-patterns as we did.

https://core-electronics.com.au/projects/led-pixel-matrix

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Is there any chance that I could come by and show you my project?

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This is code I have used to detect a button press using interrupts.

// declare variable to hold state of button press
bool ButtonON = false;

// interrupt routine for button press
void ButtonPressedISR() {
  ButtonON = true;
}

void setup() {

// push button on Digital pin 2
  pinMode(2, INPUT_PULLUP);            
  attachInterrupt(digitalPinToInterrupt(2), ButtonPressedISR, FALLING);

}

void loop() {

  if (ButtonON) {
    // set variable to change the way the display counts
    // this could increment, so pressing the button would step through the available options
    // reseting when it got to the top level
     ButtonOn = false;
  }

}
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