B4R Tutorial 8x8 LED Matrix with 788BS

It is based on this Arduino project with the following wiring diagram:

It uses the 788BS 8x8 LED matrix (red) to display numbers/characters/other stuff (without making use of shift registers)

This is probably not the best way to drive the matrix as it uses a whole lot of pins (16 of them). The code all done in B4R without using any inline C code or library. Better way is probably to make use of a shift register. But it is nevertheless challenging to control 64 LED's to display whatever it is that one wants to display.

My first B4R sample project and it took me some time to figure it out....

It can display:
A to Z
completely blank matrix
all led ON matrix
Heart
Smiley
Numbers 0 to 9
Exclamation mark

Very simple to create additional characters/stuff.
Project uses an Arduion Uno R3 from Keyestudio

Sample code:

#Region Project Attributes
    #AutoFlushLogs: True
    #CheckArrayBounds: True
    #StackBufferSize: 300
#End Region

Sub Process_Globals
    'These global variables will be declared once when the application starts.
    'Public variables can be accessed from all modules.
    Public Serial1 As Serial
   
    Dim ALLON() As  Byte = Array As Byte(0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff,0xff)  'row 1 to row 8 and what LED's to switch ON/OFF in each ROW
    Dim ALLOFF() As  Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00)
    Dim HEART() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x66,0xff,0xff,0xff,0x7e,0x3c,0x18)
    Dim SMILEY() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x3c,0x42,0xa5,0x81,0xa5,0x99,0x42,0x3c)
   
    Dim EXCLAMATION() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x00,0x10,0x00)
   
    Dim A() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x3c,0x66,0x66,0x7E,0x66,0x66,0x66)
    Dim B() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x78,0x48,0x48,0x70,0x48,0x44,0x44,0x7c)
    Dim C() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x1e,0x20,0x40,0x40,0x40,0x20,0x1e)
    Dim D() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x38,0x24,0x22,0x22,0x24,0x38,0x00)
    Dim E() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x3c,0x20,0x38,0x20,0x20,0x3c,0x00)
    Dim F() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x3c,0x20,0x38,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x00)
    Dim G() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x3c,0x20,0x20,0x2e,0x22,0x3e,0x00)
    Dim H() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x24,0x24,0x3c,0x24,0x24,0x24,0x00)
    Dim I() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x38,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x38,0x00)
    Dim J() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x1c,0x08,0x08,0x08,0x28,0x38,0x00)
    Dim K() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x24,0x28,0x30,0x28,0x24,0x24,0x00)
    Dim L() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x20,0x3c,0x00)
    Dim M() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x00,0x44,0xaa,0x92,0x82,0x82,0x00)
    Dim N() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x22,0x32,0x2a,0x26,0x22,0x00,0x00)
    Dim O() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x3c,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x3c,0x00)
    Dim P() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x38,0x24,0x24,0x38,0x20,0x20,0x00)
    Dim Q() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x3c,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x46,0x3e,0x01)
    Dim R() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x38,0x24,0x24,0x38,0x24,0x24,0x00)
    Dim S() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x3c,0x20,0x3c,0x04,0x04,0x3c,0x00)
    Dim T() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x7c,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x00)
    Dim U() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x42,0x24,0x18,0x00)
    Dim V() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x22,0x22,0x22,0x14,0x14,0x08,0x00)
    Dim W() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x82,0x92,0x54,0x54,0x28,0x00,0x00)
    Dim X() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x42,0x24,0x18,0x18,0x24,0x42,0x00)
    Dim Y() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x44,0x28,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x00)
    Dim Z() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x00,0x3c,0x04,0x08,0x10,0x20,0x3c,0x00)
   
    Dim ZERO() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x70,0x88,0x98,0xa8,0xc8,0x88,0x70,0x00)
    Dim ONE() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x30,0x70,0x30,0x30,0x30,0x30,0xfc,0x00)
    Dim TWO() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x78,0xcc,0x0c,0x38,0x60,0xcc,0xfc,0x00)
    Dim THREE() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x78,0xcc,0x0c,0x38,0x0c,0xcc,0x78,0x00)
    Dim FOUR() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x1c,0x3c,0x6c,0xcc,0xfe,0x0c,0x1e,0x00)
    Dim FIVE() As Byte = Array As Byte(0xfc,0xc0,0xf8,0x0c,0x0c,0xcc,0x78,0x00)
    Dim SIX() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x38,0x60,0xc0,0xf8,0xcc,0xcc,0x78,0x00)
    Dim SEVEN() As Byte = Array As Byte(0xfc,0xcc,0x0c,0x18,0x30,0x30,0x30,0x00)
    Dim EIGHT() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x78,0xcc,0xcc,0x78,0xcc,0xcc,0x78,0x00)
    Dim NINE() As Byte = Array As Byte(0x78,0xcc,0xcc,0x7c,0x0c,0x18,0x70,0x00)
   
    Dim timeCount As Float = 0

    Dim row(8) As Pin
    Dim col(8) As Pin
   
End Sub

Private Sub AppStart
    Serial1.Initialize(115200)
    Log("AppStart")

    For i1 = 0 To 7
        row(i1).Initialize(i1+2, row(i1).MODE_OUTPUT)
    Next

    For j1 = 0 To 7
        col(j1).Initialize(j1+10, col(i1).MODE_OUTPUT)
    Next
    AddLooper("Looper1")
   
End Sub

Sub Looper1
   
    Delay(5)
    timeCount = timeCount + 1
    If (timeCount <  40) Then
        drawscreen(B)
    else if (timeCount <  80) Then
        drawscreen(E)
    else if (timeCount <  120) Then
        drawscreen(L)
    else if (timeCount <  160) Then
        drawscreen(I)
    else if (timeCount <  200) Then
        drawscreen(N)
    else if (timeCount <  240) Then
        drawscreen(D)
    else if (timeCount <  280) Then
        drawscreen(A)
    else if (timeCount <  320) Then
        drawscreen(ALLON)
    else if (timeCount <  360) Then
        drawscreen(ALLOFF)
    else if (timeCount <  400) Then
        drawscreen(SMILEY)
    else if (timeCount <  440) Then
        drawscreen(HEART)
    else if (timeCount <  480) Then
        drawscreen(EXCLAMATION)
    else if (timeCount <  520) Then
        drawscreen(ZERO)
    else if (timeCount <  560) Then
        drawscreen(ONE)
    else if (timeCount <  600) Then
        drawscreen(TWO)
    else if (timeCount <  640) Then
        drawscreen(THREE)
    else if (timeCount <  680) Then
        drawscreen(FOUR)
    else if (timeCount <  720) Then
        drawscreen(FIVE)
    else if (timeCount <  760) Then
        drawscreen(SIX)
    else if (timeCount <  800) Then
        drawscreen(SEVEN)
    else if (timeCount <  840) Then
        drawscreen(EIGHT)
    else if (timeCount <  880) Then
        drawscreen(NINE)
    Else  
        timeCount = 0
    End If  

End Sub

Sub drawscreen(letter() As Byte)
   
    For i1 = 0 To 7
        row(i1).DigitalWrite(True)
        For j1 = 0 To 7
             Dim tempbyte As Byte = Bit.ShiftRight(letter(i1),j1)
             tempbyte = Bit.And(tempbyte,0x01)
             If tempbyte  <> 0 Then
               col(j1).DigitalWrite(False)              'change this to true for reversed out letter
             Else
                   col(j1).DigitalWrite(True)              'change this to false for reversed out letter
             End If
             DelayMicroseconds(100)
             col(j1).DigitalWrite(True)
        Next
        row(i1).DigitalWrite(False)
    Next

End Sub