Question about project with LED Matrix

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Hello everybody,

first off - I’d like to apologize for some of my grammar mistakes You might find during this post, English is not my mother tongue.

I have Raspberry Pi and I just bought this LED matrix - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/759

It’s running through SPI and it has COM-00759 chip. The problem is I didn’t find anywhere on the internet anything about this LED matrix with Raspberry Pi. I was thinking to use some kind of variation of this: https://github.com/rm-hull/max7219

It’s a 8x8 LED Matrix controlled also by SPI but it has different chip.

I just want to be able to write message such as Hello World or something through it, and then if possible try to control it over the network :smiley:

I would be grateful for any help, because it’s for a project :slight_smile:

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I’d start by studying some of the Adafruit R-Pi libraries that use SPI, like the MAX7219 stuff you found.

Then modify (copy, rename) one of those to match the LED Matrix’s SPI interface.

Also, be sure to read all the comments about the LED matrix on the product page.