SmartMatrix Minimal Bundle

Name: SmartMatrix Minimal Bundle
SKU: 3919
Price: 99.95 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.50 (1 reviews)

(1 Review)

Make a display that can show colorful patterns or animated GIFs on a bright 32x32-pixel RGB LED Matrix Panel

Designed by Pixelmatix in United States of America

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Make a display that can show colorful patterns or animated GIFs on a bright 32x32-pixel RGB LED Matrix Panel

Want to build a SmartMatrix project, but don't need all the parts in the SmartMatrix SD Full Bundle? Buy just what you need with this bundle. Product Info Basic soldering is required to assemble th…

Product Info

Basic soldering is required to assemble the board using all through-hole parts
All libraries and sketches are Open Source so you can customize and add your own functionality using the Arduino IDE
Expansion port brings Teensy 3.1's free pins out to edges of board (UART, SPI, I2C, ADC/DAC)

32x32 Pixel RGB LED Matrix Display Panel - 192mm (7.56”) square.
SmartMatrix SD Shield Kit
Teensy 3.1
5V 4A Power Supply, 6’ USB Cable.

You can add these options to your bundle:

SmartMatrix Frame Kit - specialty lighting acrylic to diffuse the LEDs and improve the look of the display , and paperboard backing attaches to the display to hide panel electronics and makes the panel easy to mount in your choice of shadow box frame (frame not included) ($14.95)
4GB MicroSD card to store GIFs for playback using the Aurora application or a Arduino GIF slideshow sketch ($7.95)
Sorry, the IR remote kit is only available in the SmartMatrix SD Full Bundle.

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.00)

Documentation: (5.00)

Shipping: (5.00)

Communication: (4.00)

Richard | Dec. 22, 2014

Worked first time with one question

Up and running with several of the example aps, including FunkyNoise _SmartMatrix_Edition and FunkyNoise Alpha.

Question: Why do I have to hit the Teensy 3.1 reset button after each upload of code? Each time, after hitting the button, the new software seems to work fine.

I wish I had mounted the teensy on a connector as opposed to hard-soldered so I could access the pins on the bottom of the Teensy. Oh well.
Everything I do is battery/wireless and this is no exception. I connected an XBee through pins 0 and 1 conveniently brought out to the interface connector. Very smart bringing extra teensy pins to the connector.
Can connect to panel through a cable or directly (I chose directly).

I was a bit confused over the many FastLed libraries that are out there.
I chose FastLED-FastLED3.1. I removed the existing FastLED from the Arduino libraries and renamed FastLED-FastLED3.1 to FastLED. Works fine. No compile errors at all.
Also I chose to use the SmartMatrix-variablerefresh although I haven't figured out why yet. Simply chose the library with the latest date. New is better. I am old. I should know.

Great forum at SmartMatrix Users Google Community https://plus.google.com/communities/105354523738870531811

This will be fun.

thanks,
Richard

Response from Pixelmatix | Dec. 23, 2014

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your review! Here are responses to your questions and comments:

"Why do I have to hit the Teensy 3.1 reset button after each upload of code?" - I answered this on G+ as well, hopefully it's as simple as enabling the "Auto" option in Teensy Loader.

"I was a bit confused over the many FastLed libraries that are out there." - There's an external libraries section in the SmartMatrix Docs. I agree it's confusing to install the right version of FastLED but we tried to make it as easy as possible:
http://docs.pixelmatix.com/SmartMatrix/#external-libraries

"I chose to use the SmartMatrix-variablerefresh" - That branch of the library won't be maintained, it's a one-off with an example that steps through refresh rates so people can find the refresh rate that looks best when recording video of SmartMatrix. You should use the latest version of SmartMatrix on the Releases page:
https://github.com/pixelmatix/SmartMatrix/releases

I'd like to hear what you're doing with the XBee and SmartMatrix, please post to the G+ Community if you want to share anything. Here's an easier to remember URL :-)
http://pixl.mx/SmartMatrixUsers

Thanks,
Louis