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Feature Request: Add Support for DMD with MPF SmartMatrix Teensy Boards

Open sirellgithub opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

Hi, Is it possible to add basic (output)support for the SmartMatrix based MPF DMD firmware ? The MPF is using this sketch on the teensy: link for receiving the frames.

Greets Michael

sirellgithub avatar Sep 23 '20 09:09 sirellgithub

Okay I've discussed this with @ecurtz months ago but for some reason didn't post the conclusion here. As far as I understood:

  • You can run different firmwares on the Teensy, most use the RGB_DMD or something compatible
  • It supports RGB888 frames, as well as 4/8-bit color tables
  • Bus is over serial, an 8-byte header, and 312832 bytes of pixel data

We'll have a goal at this once VPE gets DMD support.

freezy avatar Feb 23 '21 23:02 freezy

The last time I tried to do high speed serial from Unity on my preferred platform (OS X) it required a few extra hoops to get the connection initialized but that's the only potential issue and I'm not sure if that will still exist (it was a couple years ago) or what platforms might require some extra work.

ecurtz avatar Feb 23 '21 23:02 ecurtz

Out of curiosity, has there been any news/progress on this?

48productions avatar Dec 20 '22 00:12 48productions

No, but I don't see any reason to not go ahead with it. @ecurtz would you be able to help me with implementing a driver?

freezy avatar Jun 07 '23 10:06 freezy