I was able to join an introduction to arduino course at work. Good excuse to hack on arduino hardware.http://marc.merlins.org/perso/arduino/post_2013-09-14_Arduino-Training-and-Hacking-at-Google.html

• I was able to join an introduction to arduino course at work. Good excuse to hack on arduino hardware.http://marc.merlins.org/perso/arduino/post_2013-09-14_Arduino-Training-and-Hacking-at-Google.html
• It included an adafruit I2C controlled 8x8 matrix
• Sadly the built in controller only allowed for red and green to be on or off, and give orange if you mixed them together.
• But GFX gave cool drawing primitives, which I learned
• https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-GFX-Library

2013/09: Getting a taste of Adafruit::GFX API