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Stylus

Just playing Super Mario All Stars on an RGB matrix panel as you do.

To keep things together better, I 3D printed a bracket in two pieces, the subject of a work in progress playground note: adafruit-playground.com/u/jepl

This is using a 3rd party breakout board with 3 HUB75 connectors. I recently added the ability to drive up to 3 connectors to Adafruit Piomatter, as well as temporal dithering.

In this specific interest, I'm using 2 connectors to drive a total of 4 64x64 panels. --num-planes=6 --num-temporal-planes=2 means I'm getting effective 18 bit color, albeit with the least significant 2 bits being shown on alternate refreshes, creating a tiny amount of 44Hz color shimmer.

All these "go faster" tricks together give me about 88Hz refresh rate on the panel, despite that we're still limited to about 10MB/s of data between the PI's main CPU and the PIO peripheral that's acting as the LED controller.

A bright pixelated LED panel shows the World 1 map in Super Mario Bros 3. A SNES style controller is sitting on top of the LED panel. On the right a red PCB with 3 connectors (2 occupied) can be seen. This is the "Active3" adapter. Under it (with just a few features visible, such as the USB ports) is a Pi 5. All around on the wood desk are pieces of electronics from those other projects I just never manage to tidy up...
A view of the back of the matrix. You can see 4 individual sub panels held together by a white plastic 3D print. There are ribbon connectors and power cables, making the thing a bit of a rats nest. As in the other photo, it's on my messy desk with a dark wood finish & lots of unrelated wires, PCBs, tools & more.
#Adafruit#RaspberryPi#Pi5
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Jer 🚵🏼

Measuring voltage w/bad LEDs it's around 80vdc. Short around a bad LED and it drops to around 40-50vdc. The LED driver shows its output from 36-65vdc and 300mA. It would seem the driver is cranking things up to hit some level of current flow?
#electronics #LEDs

side view of the LED driver, which has a transformer that’s tilted off the board at a jaunty angle. Also a number of capacitors, resistor or two, maybe a thermistor, diodes, and chip(s).
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Jer 🚵🏼

Good day and welcome to fun with white LED fixtures. Today we have two of them, one that’s dimly lit and another totally borked. Both can be semi-revived by shorting around a burnt out LED.
Most of these fixtures have all of the LEDs in series, which means if even one burns out the whole device quits working. Not a great design.
#electronics #LEDs

dimly lit LED lights in a zig-zagging circular pattern, a few of the LED chips are not lit at all. There’s a smaller light fixture near top of frame that is also plugged in, but no light.
Same fixture this time one of the burnt LEDs is shorted around w/alligator clip and everything is very bright (brighter than photo can reliably show)
same test on the smaller fixture, but on this only about half of the LEDs light up when bad one is shorted, so there’s at least one other bad LED on the other side.
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diyelectromusic

Yet another MIDI monitor on yet another small, neat, microcontroller - this one the Waveshare RP2040 Matrix which has a great little 5x5 programmable LED matrix onboard.

And no, I'm not bored of these things yet :)

diyelectromusic.com/2025/02/22

Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects · Waveshare RP2040 Matrix MIDI Monitor
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#MIDI#RP2040#LEDs
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Ben K

Quick test with a #PixelBlaze and some DIY addressable LED paracord. Encasing the 2.7mm LED strand in the paracord took a bit of work but makes it looks nice.

First time using one of these and so far it's much nicer than some of the other things I've used. Looking forward to playing around with the accelerometer and live coding.

GIF
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Straithe

Finished this art piece for my office!

The base for this piece is a cork board. I painted the frame, covered the cork in fabric, added a string of WS2812 LEDs controlled by a Pixelblaze V3 Standard LED controller, and then finished it up with some mirrors and flowers.

This art took 23 calendar days to finish, but only 7 of those are days where I actually made progress on this project. The other 16 days were focused on other events and projects in my life.

The materials cost:
$39 USD for Pixelblaze
$35 USD for the LEDs
$20 CAD for the fabric
$10 CAD for the mirrors
$ 6 CAD for the fake flowers
$15 CAD paint
$ 5 staples
+ cost of tools and miscellaneous supplies

#leds#pixelblaze#wallart
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Straithe

Wore some LEDs on a call with my electronics friends yesterday. This set of LEDs is my first time working with WS2812s and second time working with a Pixelblaze. Sunday these lights will be going onto an art piece I have in the works. But maybe I should do a photoshoot with them first.

#LEDs#electronics
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