Designing and building the display:

About the Bluetooth data transfer:

Display PCBs:

Two PCBs (left half 8 x 10, right half 8 x 10) designed in KiCad (see files) and Milled into PCB material using my CNC milling machine. Standard green LEDs. The distance between two LEDs is 9mm.

Multiplex-configuration: All (+) per row connected and all (-) per column. The (-) are driven by Darlington-drivers, the (+) by PNP transistors.

Control-board:

PCB (see files) created in KiCad and milled.

Rows: Individual PNP transistors, one data-line to the arduino per row.

Columns: Two daisy-chained SerToPar Shift-registers control two darlington arrays.

BT-module:

Cheap BT speaker, the class-D amp got disconnected from the DAC and the signal is fed into an analog port of the arduino.

Clock: PCB from a Cheap wall clock, the coil-signal drives a transistor which pulls down a digital port of the arduino every two seconds.