# Sure Electronics LED Matrix Displays

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/sure-electronics-led-matrix-displays/17407>\
**Category:** New Product Ideas\
**Created:** [September 17, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/sure-electronics-led-matrix-displays/17407 "2010-09-17T15:19:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![adammhaile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@adammhaile](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/adammhaile)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/sure-electronics-led-matrix-displays/17407/1 "2010-09-17T15:19:10Z")

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I just found and starting using some great and really cheap LED matrix displays (8x32 in the ones I got) that are really easy to use and can be linked in chains of 4 displays.

Sure Electronics sells them on eBay and from their site: [http://www.sureelectronics.net/goods.php?id=907](http://www.sureelectronics.net/goods.php?id=907)

However, they are located in and everything is shipped from China. Not a huge deal, but the ship times are kinda long and I bet that we could get better prices if they were bought in bulk.

They also have many other display models, the linked one above is just what I got and probably their most popular.

On a side note, there is a really great arduino library for interfacing with them here: [http://www.makehackvoid.com/member-proj … ontrollers](http://www.makehackvoid.com/member-projects/ht1632-avr-library-interface-ht1632-led-driver-ics-and-avr-micro-controllers)

I’ve actually never even used an Arduino board before this project and I was able to get them hooked up and displaying a text marquee using that library in under 10 minutes.