Bluetooth Controlled Portable LED Display

The aim of the project is to make a portable LED display from SMD LEDs and to display the custom programmed patterns at our command. The core application of the project is to act as a portable display for event organisers or exhibitionists or consultants to make announcements at their mobile facilities. This can also be used as a novelty item in a showcase.

This project is demonstrated by giving an overview as to what are the peripherals or hardware used and how it is initialised and used.

Image showing PCB Soldering for Bluetooth Controlled LED Display

Fig. 1: Image showing PCB Soldering for Bluetooth Controlled LED Display

The circuit mainly consists of 4 blocks

A) Multiplexed LED Display

B) Atmega8 Controller

C) Hc-05 Bluetooth Module

D) Power Rail Circuit

Multiplexed LED Display

The LED display is made on a bare copper padded perforated board with SMD LED of 0805 size. The wire routing is a two layered overlapping circuit. The cathode rails are provided on the backside of board by means of steel jumper needles and the anode rails are connected to the LEDs by means of thin copper filament wires on top of the board. There are a total of 10 cathodes and 10 anodes as control pins.

Atmega8 Controller

This controller is run by an 8 Mhz internal RC clock source. The control wires are connected to the controller port pins. All the cathodes of the display were directly connected to the MCU while the anode pins were connected through a current limiting 100ohms resister. The Uart communication peripheral of the MCU is used to establish the communication between MCU and Bluetooth module. This Uart peripheral is set at 9600bps baud rate.

Hc-05 Bluetooth Module

The Bluetooth module used is configured with a new name and its baud value is set to 9600bps

Power Rail Circuit

The Bluetooth module used requires a steady 5v source for proper operation and its Uart logic is based on 3.3v. Therefore the MCU is given a 3.3v potential to run so as to match the logic level and decrease the LED brightness. Hence a 7805 regulator in series with 1117s 3.3v LDO is used to provide necessary voltage levels. Also a protection diode is used in series with power supply input.

Image showing Power Relay Circuit on PCB

Fig. 2: Image showing Power Relay Circuit on PCB

Circuit

The Circuit is attached in the Circuit Diagram Tab. All the resistors used are 100 Ohms.

Code

The code is attached as main.c file and clock and fuse bits value has to set to run @ 8 MHz of respective compiler.

Hardware Used

Usbasp , smd workstation.

Software Used

Winavr, Realterm.

Project Source Code

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#include<avr/io.h>
#include<util/delay.h>
void active(int,int,float);

void uartinit(unsigned int);
void uarttrans (unsigned char);
unsigned char uartrec (void);

int pat1(void);
int pat2(void);
int pat3(void);
int pat4(void);
int pat5(void);

int main(void)
{
char c;
uartinit(51); //sets baud to 9600bps
DDRB = 0b11111111;//6-pins
DDRC = 0b111111;//6-pins
DDRD = 0b11111100;//8-pins
while(1)
{
  c = uartrec();
switch(c)
{
  case 'A':pat1();
           break;
  case 'B':pat2();
           break;
  case 'C':pat3();
           break;
  case 'D':pat4();
           break;
  case 'E':pat5();
           break;
  }
uarttrans(c);
}
return 0;
}



void active(int x,int y,float f)
{
switch(y)
{
   case 9: PORTB |= 1<<PORTB6;
           break;
   case 8: PORTB |= 1<<PORTB7;
           break;
   case 7: PORTD |= 1<<PORTD2;
           break;
   case 6: PORTD |= 1<<PORTD3;
           break;
   case 5: PORTD |= 1<<PORTD4;
           break;
   case 4: PORTD |= 1<<PORTD5;
           break;
   case 3: PORTD |= 1<<PORTD6;
           break;
   case 2: PORTD |= 1<<PORTD7;
           break;
   case 1: PORTB |= 1<<PORTB0;
           break;
   case 0: PORTB |= 1<<PORTB1;
           break;

}
  switch(x)
{
   case 0: PORTB &= ~(1<<PORTB2);
           break;
   case 1: PORTB &= ~(1<<PORTB3);
           break;
   case 2: PORTB &= ~(1<<PORTB4);
           break;
   case 3: PORTB &= ~(1<<PORTB5);
           break;
   case 4: PORTC &= ~(1<<PORTC0);
           break;
   case 5: PORTC &= ~(1<<PORTC1);
           break;
   case 6: PORTC &= ~(1<<PORTC2);
           break;
   case 7: PORTC &= ~(1<<PORTC3);
           break;
   case 8: PORTC &= ~(1<<PORTC4);
           break;
   case 9: PORTC &= ~(1<<PORTC5);
           break;

}
_delay_ms(f);
PORTC = ~0b000000;  //deactive logic
PORTB =  0b00111100;
PORTD =  0b00000000;

}


void uartinit(unsigned int ubbr)
{
UBRRL = ubbr;
UBRRH = ubbr>>8;
UCSRC = (1<<URSEL) |(1<<UCSZ0)|(1<<UCSZ1);
UCSRB = (1<<RXEN)|(1<<TXEN);
}
void uarttrans (unsigned char ch)
{
while (!( UCSRA & (1<<UDRE)))
{
}  
UDR = ch;
}
unsigned char uartrec (void)
{
while(!(UCSRA) & (1<<RXC))
{
}
return UDR;
}


int pat1(void)
{
int i;
for(i=0;i<10;i++)
  {
  active(i,i,10);
}
  for(i=0;i<10;i++)
  {
  active((i),(9-i),10);
}
return 0;
}

int pat2(void)
{
int i,j;
  {
   for(i=0;i<10;i++)
   for(j=0;j<10;j++)
   {
    active(i,j,1.06);
   }
  }
    {
   for(i=0;i<10;i++)
   for(j=0;j<10;j++)
   {
     active(j,i,1.06);
   }
  }

  return 0;
}
int pat3(void)
{
int i,j;
  {
   for(i=0;i<10;i++)
   for(j=0;j<10;j++)
   {
    active(i,9-j,0.1);
   }
  }
    {
   for(i=0;i<10;i++)
   for(j=0;j<10;j++)
   {
     active(9-j,i,0.1);
   }
  }

  return 0;
}
int pat4(void)
{
int k;
int p[] = { 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 2 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 3 , 3 , 3 , 3 , 3 , 4 , 4 , 4 , 5 , 5 , 5 , 5 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 7 , 7 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 9 , 9 , 9 , 9 , 9 , 9 }; //i m dls xco
int q[] = { 6 , 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 9 , 6 , 0 , 4 , 6 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 6 , 9 , 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 8 , 9 , 0 , 0 , 6 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 0 , 3 , 8 , 0 , 2 , 4 , 9 , 1 , 4 , 6 , 6 , 7 , 8 }; //i m dls yco

  for(k=0;k<51;k++)
  active(p[k],q[k],.1);
return 0;

}



int pat5(void)
{
int k,l,t=1000;
int p1[] = { 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 9 };//v-xco-18
int q1[] = { 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 2 , 1 , 0 , 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 0 };//v-yco
int p2[] = { 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 8 , 9 };//n-xco-22
int q2[] = { 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 9 , 9 , 9 , 9 , 9 , 8 , 7 , 6 , 5 , 4 , 3 , 2 , 1 , 0 };//n-yco
int p3[] = { 2 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 2 , 3 , 3 , 3 , 4 , 4 , 4 , 5 , 5 , 5 , 6 , 6 , 6 , 7 , 7 , 7 , 7 , 7 , 9 };//r-xco-27
int q3[] = { 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 4 , 5 , 9 , 3 , 5 , 9 , 2 , 5 , 9 , 1 , 5 , 9 , 0 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 0 };//r-yco
 
 
  for(l=0;l<t;l++)
  for(k=0;k<18;k++)
  active(p1[k],q1[k],0);//v
 
  for(l=0;l<t;l++)
   for(k=0;k<23;k++)
  active(p2[k],q2[k],0);//n
 
  for(l=0;l<t;l++)
  for(k=0;k<28;k++)
  active(p3[k],q3[k],0);//r
 
 
return 0;
} 

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