Not to much time spend so far on this display, but before I continued I wanted to make sure I can make the display illuminate asynchronously with the rest of the program flow. To do this we need to use interrupts which is launched after a certain timer expires. This way we can for example make sure that every 5ms the pixels are refreshed so that we get a clear non-flickering image. This also allows us to program our normal program code in the loop method without having to worry about the display code not being called in time (because then the display would go black for some time). For Arduino Uno the code is already there in the IDE to use, for Due a guy named Ivan Seidel already did some testing and programming and so we can also make use of interrupts on Due really easy (library on https://github.com/ivanseidel/DueTimer).

Here is a 3-bit colors version of the British flag displayed with the Adafruit 16×32 RGB LED matrix and Arduino Due.

I notice though that the LED’s do not really shine so powerful as they should, and also altering the interrupt timer to display at 50 or 100Hz intervals really ruins the picture (also this I can not explain). So more work ahead… may God save the Queen!