
Posted in how-to, LED Hacks Tagged 3d printing, aluminum extrusion, bezel, enclosure, frame, LED panel, magnetic, raspberry pi We like the way the basic design scales and is flexible about the thickness and size of the LED panels themselves, making it a promising way to accommodate perfectly functional oddball panels that end up in the trash. While out riding his bike, came across a dumpster overflowing with large LED panels. Despite the fact that the model numbers didn’t reveal anything helpful after some online searching, he decided to pedal off with as many as he could safely carry. The COVID-19 lockdown left him with only a limited set of tools, be he still managed to crack the protocol used to control his e-waste score and document it for our reading pleasure.īetween the helpful labels on the PCB silkscreen and the advice of a friend that used to work on digital road signs, it didn’t take long to get a general idea of what the panels were looking for in terms of power and control. The next step was to take an ATmega328PB based development board and start throwing data at the panel’s input lines to see if he could elicit a response.Įspecially once he noticed the MBI5024 shift registers dotting the board. With careful attention and some custom code, he eventually figured out that each byte of data sent down the line would control a 4 x 2 section of LEDs.

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Once he had the basics down, the next step was to start expanding his code to handle things like shapes, text, and daisy-chained panels.
