{"id":527,"date":"2015-02-14T14:08:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T14:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2015-02-14T14:18:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T14:18:51","slug":"help-designing-matrix-fonts-ninechargen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Help Designing Matrix Fonts &#8211;  NineCharGen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some MBED embedded micro\u00a0work I needed to explain how to use a dot matrix LED display and how a character generator worked. \u00a0Rather than getting students to suffer the old fashioned way, plotting the shapes on paper I put this application together.<\/p>\n<p>You just tap on the LEDs to make the pattern and the hex code for that column is shown at the bottom of the display. NineCharGen is written in JAVA and cross platform.<\/p>\n<p>It can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninelocks.com\/download\/java\/nine_chargen.zip\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/char_gen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/char_gen-240x300.png\" alt=\"char_gen\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/char_gen-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/char_gen.png 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some MBED embedded micro\u00a0work I needed to explain how to use a dot matrix LED display and how a character generator worked. \u00a0Rather than getting students to suffer the old fashioned way, plotting the shapes on paper I put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/?p=527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,80,53,82,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","category-computing","category-education","category-java","category-mbed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jontrinder.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}