On May 4, 2009, at 7:54 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > > 10x10 ( so 100 matrix ) that's not what you said the first time! I've been having quite a bit of fun with one of these 16*24 displays: http://www.sureelectronics.net/goods.php?id=142 This has an intelligent controller and is self-refreshing, so there is a lot less continuous demand on the cpu. It's fast enough to do animations even through the rather slow Arduino libraries, so a PIC should do fine as well. And it's REALLY hard to beat the price! Much discussion and quite a bit of code here: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1225239439 BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist