Starling: A simple internet connected modular led display.
Sandeep (talk) 15:46, 19 November 2015 (IST)
This is a fun project, I am working on currently. We have seen lot of ASICs being used to drive cheap LED Matrix, but the micro-controller (MCU) are getting cheaper by the day. With this project, I would like to demonstrate the beauty of firmware not just to drive the Matrix but to get more out of it.
I plan to make the software modular, so that one can cascade displays easily and software adapts itself. The plan is to put the displays put on a I2C bus and drive them from a external development boards like the Arduino, Rasp pi or other MCUs. I plan to support direct displaying of text and numbers and also functions to control individual pixels. I will further expand it to add static graphics and some small animations.