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A DMD controller for displaying pinball or other animations based around the Espressif ESP lineup of microcontrollers

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esPINDMD

The esPINDMD is a clock and GIF player combination for playing Pinball animations.

Features

As of now, not all of these features are implemented.

esPINDMD supports the following features:

  • Support for ESP32, ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3
  • Easy to assemble and setup
  • Sequential or indexed based GIF file browsing
  • Wi-Fi and Ethernet support
  • Support for MQTT including Home Assistant auto discovery
  • Support for over the air updates
  • Support for additional sensors via STEMMA QT / QWIC

Setup the development environment

To setup this project, a git patch has to be applied before building using the following command from the root directory of the project.

bash scripts/apply_patches.sh

Afterwards, the project can be build like a normal platform.io project.

Setup the esPINDMD

The setup process will involve connecting the esPINDMD to a network and loading it up with GIFs for displaying.

Hardware

The esPINDMD is designed around but not limited to the Adafruit Metro lineup as well as the Sparkfun IoT RedBoard lineup. For the respective version of the ESP32, the following boards are officially supported:

  • Sparkfun IoT RedBoard ESP32
  • Adafruit Metro ESP32-S2
  • Adafruit Metro ESP32-S3

The following pinouts are designed to be used with these boards as well as the Adafruit RGB Matrix Shield. Every other board will have the default column for its pin definitions.

Matrix Pinout

HUB75 ESP32 ESP32-S2 ESP32-S3 Default
R1 GPIO4 GPIO7 GPIO2
G1 GPIO13 GPIO8 GPIO3
B1 GPIO14 GPIO9 GPIO4
R2 GPIO16 GPIO10 GPIO5
G2 GPIO17 GPIO11 GPIO6
B2 GPIO25 GPIO12 GPIO7
E NC NC NC NC
A GPIO33 GPIO17 GPIO14
B GPIO32 GPIO18 GPIO15
C Broken GPIO1 GPIO16
D Broken GPIO2 GPIO17
CLK GPIO26 GPIO13 GPIO8
LAT GPIO5 GPIO15 GPIO10
OE GPIO27 GPIO14 GPIO9

SD Reader Pinout

SD Reader ESP32 ESP32-S2 ESP32-S3 Default
MISO GPIO23 N/A GPIO6
MOSI GPIO19 N/A GPIO5
CLK GPIO18 N/A GPIO7
CS GPIO5 N/A GPIO4

License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

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