RainbowDashboard
RainbowDashboard is a third-party firmware for the Rainbowduino by Seeed Studio. Among its features:
- Clean, maintainable code base.
- Compatible with standard firmware from Rainbowduino 2.0.
- Supports UART mode (no Arduino host needed - talk to Rainbowduino directly).
- Works with both Rainbowduino 2.0 and Rainbowduino 3.0.
- Double-buffered graphics operations.
- Software real-time clock.
- Animation driven by the Rainbowduino itself.
- Full Windows ANSI (CP1252) character set. (Technically Kreative SuperLatin, a superset.)
- High-level command set.
The RainbowDashboard project also encompasses RainbowStudio, a graphical front-end application for controlling Rainbowduinos. Using RainbowStudio, you can upload firmware without the Arduino IDE, drive a display, emulate a virtual Rainbowduino, and edit RBD (RainbowDashboard command stream) files.