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Yep. Listen to what I say when I turn it on in this video.
http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/460138-game-frame-pixel-art-project/
Yes, these have been out for awhile. It’s a totally different LED and technology. I’ve experimented with them. Certainly the price is right for the number of LEDs, but they are no where near as bright as the ws2811 lights on Game Frame. Totally different league there, but the power requirements reflect as much.
I can’t argue with that, Tim. That is pretty funny. Coincidentally I treated the computer/IDE the same way when writing the code, but wasn’t as successful.
The link on github leads to a page that says the project moved here:
https://github.com/greiman/SdFat
Let me know if there any issues. I’ll update the link on github when I’m at a proper terminal.
Hi Willem,
I’m sorry for the delay in responding, and for the flake. Looks like a sliver of the plastic mesh came loose. No big deal. You should be able to turn the Game Frame on its back (screen side up) and tap firmly on the pixel with your finger. In my experience they fall right out. Let me know if you can’t fix it.
Jeremy
Alan,
Is it possible your timer was set to something less than the length of the filmstrips? I have not seen the Game Frame jump between segments. Maybe try setting the timer to infinite? The problem with using 4000 frames rather than 32000 is you will get more subfolders, and the system only supports up to 98. Beyond that will create a singularity. Would not recommend.
Jeremy
Yep! You might take a look at that script I wrote for an example.
Hi Jason,
I missed this post or I would have replied sooner.
Yes, that LED grid you linked looks like the right one. It’s a common panel that’s distributed by several people out of China. My PCB mates with this connector, which you would crimp onto the LED panel wires:
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/VHR-3N/455-1184-ND/608625You’ll obviously need 3 of the female pins too:
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/SVH-21T-P1.1/455-1133-1-ND/527367As you said, Adafruit and others have lots of strips of WS8212b LEDs. You just have to use your imagination and decide how big you want the grid (i.e. how much space do you want between the pixels). You can certainly cut a strip into 16 parts, each with 16 LEDs, and then use wires to solder them together in a zig-zag series (starting in the top left).
Unfortunately I do not have plans to release the other designs or schematics. The design is really straight forward, and should be easy to mimic. I’m actually much more interested to see what you guys come up with.
As for the layering, maybe watch that assembly video on Kickstarter. Basically it goes:
“glass” front
black paper grid
vellum
plastic mesh
LEDs
wooden packHave fun!
Think I got this figured out. For whatever reason the web server changed the file EOL from Windows to Unix. I zipped up the file and it should work now.
Let’s move this offline until it’s solved. You can email me at jeremy at this domain. Maybe you can attach the videos to that email.
hm… That’s not right. It looks like it didn’t execute all of the commands. Did you let the script finish until it said it was done (“Press any key to continue…”)? Odd. Can you upload the video somewhere so I can try it?
It looks like all it needs to do is create folders for each of the remaining files (1, 2, 3, etc.), copy the related file into the folder, and then rename it 0.bmp. Don’t know why that part of the script was skipped.
