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== Small sign ==
== Small sign ==


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== Large sign ==
== Large sign ==


[[user:DeDaan|DeDaan]] brought in a larger sign. We plan on modifying this as well to have a second banner; if this is working, the smaller one will probably be used to indicate space state to the outside world from behind a window above the front door.
[[user:DeDaan|DeDaan]] brought in a larger sign. This used to work at the previous location.


=== Current status ===
=== Current status ===
Software running on [[SpaceNanny]]. In a screen session under the user nanny there is a window called bigledpanel where the main code is running. If something goes wrong restart the script in that screen.


<pre>
Works! It is hanging above the door from bar to Zaal 1.
cd ~/bigledpanel/server
There's a raspberry pi connected to it, with hostname hetisbar.dhcp.nurd.space. Port 5001 udp receives text. Root-account is the usual password.
while true; do python general.py -p /dev/ttyACM0 -s 9600 --mpdhost slab ; sleep 1 ; done
If it doesn't work, reboot it using the reboot command. Sometimes it does lose connection to the arduino of the banner (no /dev/ttyACM0 appears).
</pre>
 
Port 5003 listens to pixelflut (UDP!).
 
[[Jarvis#LEDtickers|home assistant integration]]
 
=== Hardware ===
The sign consists of 18 smaller panels of 5x7 pixels each, arranged side by side.
 
=== Software ===
Source code:
* https://github.com/flok99/BigLedPanel
 
====Protocol ====
The protocol between the Raspberry pi and the led banner is as follows:
 
The Raspi sends raw frames over serial at 9600 bps, each column in one byte, 7 bits per byte, from left to right.
A frame starts with code 0x80, then 90 bytes of raw column data.


=== Source code ===
==== old ====
* https://github.com/NURDspace/BigLedPanel
* https://github.com/NURDspace/BigLedPanel
* https://git.nurdspace.lan/bigledpanel/bigledpanel/ (new location)
* https://git.nurd.space/bigledpanel/bigledpanel/ (new location)
==== old ====
* First try https://gist.github.com/zarya/10f47d6b3097643f4016
* First try https://gist.github.com/zarya/10f47d6b3097643f4016
* It starts to work https://gist.github.com/zarya/33fe46dac38b89f84d60
* It starts to work https://gist.github.com/zarya/33fe46dac38b89f84d60

Latest revision as of 01:37, 6 February 2021

LED banner wall
2013-07-02 23.08.34.jpg
Participants Bjornl
Skills Programming, electronics, Arduino
Status Operational
Niche Electronics
Purpose Infrastructure
Tool No
Location
Cost
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LED banner wall

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Small sign

Yotson modified a small LED banner sign to be controlled by an Arduino. After hooking it up to the Dockstar and reprogramming SpaceBot it is now stored somewhere. Code is available on github, based on this earlier code.

15/12/13

Petraea dragged the sign out to give it a little dusting down to find that a bunch of columns no longer worked(See inset animation) BrokenChip.gif A little digging around identified that the CLK line was broken, so a simple extra wire was fitted to repair this.

Left EditedLEDStripBack.jpg


Working.jpg

Large sign

DeDaan brought in a larger sign. This used to work at the previous location.

Current status

Works! It is hanging above the door from bar to Zaal 1. There's a raspberry pi connected to it, with hostname hetisbar.dhcp.nurd.space. Port 5001 udp receives text. Root-account is the usual password. If it doesn't work, reboot it using the reboot command. Sometimes it does lose connection to the arduino of the banner (no /dev/ttyACM0 appears).

Port 5003 listens to pixelflut (UDP!).

home assistant integration

Hardware

The sign consists of 18 smaller panels of 5x7 pixels each, arranged side by side.

Software

Source code:

Protocol

The protocol between the Raspberry pi and the led banner is as follows:

The Raspi sends raw frames over serial at 9600 bps, each column in one byte, 7 bits per byte, from left to right. A frame starts with code 0x80, then 90 bytes of raw column data.

old

First images

Schema's / Electronics

Arduino Pin setup

PORT_D
 0 (PD0) - UART RX
 1 (PD1) - D5
 2 (PD6) - D3 A0
 3 (PD5) - D4 A1
 4 (PD4) - D6 A2
 5 (PD3) - D2
 6 (PD2) - D0
 7 (PD1) - D1
PORT_B
 8  (PB0) - MR
 9  (PB1) - E1
 10 (PB3) - E2
PORT_C
 14 (A0,PC0) - A0
 15 (A1,PC1) - A1
 16 (A2,PC2) - A2

PIN OUT

01 - VCC
02 - VCC
03 - VCC
04 - SN74LS273N PIN 1 (MR)
05 - SN74LS138N PIN 5 (E2)
06 - SN74LS273N PIN 4 (D1)
07 - SN74LS138N PIN 1 (A0)
08 - SN74LS273N PIN 3 (D0)
09 - SN74LS138N PIN 2 (A1)
10 - SN74LS273N PIN 7 (D2)
11 - SN74LS138N PIN 3 (A2)
12 - SN74LS273N PIN 17 (D6)
13 - SN74LS138N PIN 4 (E1)
14 - SN74LS273N PIN 13 (D4)
15 - GND
16 - SN74LS273N PIN 8 (D3)
17 - GND
18 - SN74LS273N PIN 14 (D5)
19 - GND
20 - GND

Ledboard groot schema.png Ledboard Chip placement.png

Old info

The larger sign contains a separate control unit, programmed using a separate keyboard with a DB-9 like plug. It is attached to a PCB containing the LEDs with a 20 pin flatcable.

The control unit ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjornlammers/8425066292/in/photostream ) contains the following ICs:

The Toshiba and the unmarked IC are in a socket, the other two are soldered to the PCB.

The LED panel ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjornlammers/8425075284/in/photostream ) contains:

See also this tech-archive thread: http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.electronics.repair/2012-06/msg00302.html