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hzeller / rpi-rgb-led-matrix

Controlling up to three chains of 64x64, 32x32, 16x32 or similar RGB LED displays using Raspberry Pi GPIO
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Adapter Boards #718

Open jtaylor54 opened 5 years ago

jtaylor54 commented 5 years ago

First thanks you Henner Zeller for all your work on this project.

I've searched and could not find any solid info. If it's there please point me in the right direction and apologies.

Does anyone know any sources for premade adapter boards that will work with this library in case you didn't want to source all the parts and/or were not comfortable at SMD soldering?

Also does anyone have any experience or seen any work to create a web server and scripts to allow for secure admin access to upload and control displayed content? Android and iOS would be cool too.

I'd be interested in any front-end work anyone has done or seen to extend this project and make it more accessible and user friendly as I think it has huge potential and would have wider appeal.

Thanks JT

jtaylor54 commented 5 years ago

Also is there a better place to just ask questions or discuss applications of this library so as not to clutter this Issue stream and tax the developers time with things that the community can answer. Is there a subreddit or other community forum?

Tx JT

hzeller commented 5 years ago

I think there are some premade adapters from some Chinese websites that are fairly cheap and work with this library. Don't know a link, but people have found it.

The project is primarily a library for you to do the things you need (and as such attempts to be as user-friendly as possible with a good C++ API).

If you need a a web-frontend in your context and other things you can use this library as the backend and add your code on top. I usually use it for instance with the FlaschenTaschen protocol when I need simple remote update of the panel.

DaveyRance commented 5 years ago

Not sure how it works but this board is available. https://www.electrodragon.com/product/rgb-matrix-panel-drive-board-raspberry-pi/

I can confirm that the one at link below works took about 4 days to get to the USA. https://www.acmesystems.it/HAT-A3

jtaylor54 commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the info I ordered 2 of the ElectroDragon ones last week so they should be here soon Jim On Wednesday, November 21, 2018, 4:02:43 PM EST, Davey Rance notifications@github.com wrote:

Not sure how it works but this board is available. https://www.electrodragon.com/product/rgb-matrix-panel-drive-board-raspberry-pi/

I can confirm that the one at link below works took about 4 days to get to the USA. https://www.acmesystems.it/HAT-A3

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