Availability of the pixel-wrangler hardware

[stitch]

Hi Trammell,

I'm super impressed with this project. I'd like to use it as an easy way to drive a pixel display in my cyber coin pusher at the end of the year ccc conference. Do you plan this hardware to be going into production sometime?

https://twitter.com/TheCyberPusher

Regards, Elger / Stitch

[osresearch]

Production plans are uncertain, although I have an unpopulated v0 board if you want to hack on it. It works, although there are some issues remaining with the HDMI decode. Some place-and-routes are totally stable and produce beautiful glitch free framebuffer imgaes, while others are nothing but static. I've been chasing this for the past two weeks -- we're pushing the limits of the ice40 fabric -- and all of the demo videos are from the lucky ones that worked well.

So if you have some tolerance for instability during testing and finding a bitstream that gives you a solid decoding, you're welcome to one of the boards! Reach out to me on mastodon https://v.st/@th or matrix @th:v.st for contact details.

[osresearch]

The glitch branch is looking much better, so I'm optimistic that we have the timing issues sorted. Any chance you'll be at the hackaday berlin meetup this weekend? I have a self-contained demo board to show off.