Progress of our Project!

Wiring a basic microphone, amplifier
http://wiring.org.co/learning/basics/microphone.html

Amplified Microphone
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/16595/how-to-make-a-clean-amplified-microphone-analog-to-digital-conversion


http://youtu.be/rrAUWoDKqk4

My Roomate helped me build this circuit, basically what it does is it amplifies the signal that the microphone casts from microvolts to just standard volts. We got the multimeter registering values from the speaker, so now all we need to do is get the Arduino to register those same values.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MDpY9FyLhE

For the longest time… This is all the luck weve been having with the LED matrix. NOTHING WAS FREAKING WORKING. But then...

We figured out why it was showing up all jumbled. It was because the positive and negative's on the LED matrix that we have are opposite to those used in the example. The DIRECT DRIVE LED example says HELLO, I changed it to say I WON. I wanted to put something more awesome but it limited me to 6 characters. I,SPACE,W,O,N,SPACE

This is the example that we have been working on forever. Finally we figured it out.

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/DirectDriveLEDMatrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzFCOImeHHo
Direct Drive LED Matrix

FINALLY after much tinkering, and with the help of my roommate… We were able to get the Direct Drive LED Matrix. It was as simple as switching the LOW and HIGH values at the bottom of the code here:

And it worked!

VIEW THE ACTUAL CODE HERE:
http://pastebin.com/AzuD0gVh