Make An Illuminated Scrolling LED Dot Matrix Sign for Your Layout

Thats what I was hoping for. Can you also use in in combination, for example the Text Scrolls in, goes static, then starts flashing before continuing on to the left?

I think so. This is what it looks like in the MakeCode editor. It is a really simple, visual environment for programming the Micro:bit.

Here is my original program you see with the MegaCity 3 text programmed to scroll. There is some setup stuff on the left and the forever stuff is where the message is coded so it just loops forever.



Now lets add some more steps. we can select the 'Display text' routine and drag that in to our forever loop for some static text display.



Finally we add in a little pause and change the brightness of the LED's so it creates a blinking effect.



Last thing to do is save the program on to your computer as a small file. Then transfer it to your Micro:Bit using USB just like a thumb drive.

This is just a very basic example but if you play around there is much more you can do including setting all the individual LED's separately. 

If anyone ends up getting all the parts and you get stuck I am happy to walk you through exactly what you need to do.