• 3D print all given 3D models.
• Print the screen layer in white PLA.

• Make all the connections as shown in circuit diagram.
• GND~-Ve
• Vin~5V~+Ve
• DataIn ~ Pin 2
• Also extend the power supply wires to last LED and connect, to prevent the voltage drop across the LEDs.

• If you use Arduino board then you can only display animations,you cannot display time.
• If you use ESP8266 board then we can display time and other animations on the matrix.

• Put all the LEDs in snake wise order.
• Assemble everything together.
• Solder the connector to Microcontroller board , the connector is taken from the other end of the LEDs line.

• Click here for codes
• For this matrix I have made three codes HexMatrix.ino ,clock1.ino and clock2.ino.
• HexMatrix code is the code for displaying animations on the matrix,it can run on any Microcontroller board.
• Clock and clock2 code only runs on ESP8266 boards.

HexMatrix.ino:

• Open the code given in Arduino IDE.
• Install the FastLED Library in Arduino IDE.
• Select the board type,port and upload the code.
  Clock1 and Clock2 Codes:
  
• Open the code in Arduino IDE.
• In this code we can change this values as per our color requirement

  //Digit color values in RGB
  int r=255; 
  int g=255; 
  int b=255; 
  
   //Background color values in RGB 
   int br=0;
   int bg=20; 
   int bb=10;

• Enter the Wifi name and password

  const char* ssid = "Wifi_Name"; 
  const char* password = "Password"; 

• Enter the time zone of your country(India 5:30=5.5 similarly enter your time zone)

  //Your time zone
  int timezone = -5.5 * 3600; 

• Select the board type as ESP8266,select the port and upload the code.

Apart from this we also have many other animations in the FastLED Examples.