[Swansea Hackspace] Flip dot display group project...

[Peter Barnes]

Nathan,

I'm in favour with the alternate Wednesday "project night" idea.

We could start next Wednesday by programming the MCU board with the RS-485
chip I ordered this week

There's a complete python/web app
<http://engineer.john-whittington.co.uk/2017/11/adventures-flippy-flip-dot-display/>
programmed to control the panel via RS-485 - replicating this with our
setup would be a good start


Peter

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Nathan Hackett <nhackett1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andy it might be cool to have alternate Wednesdays be "do actual work on
> your projects" evenings, and start off with the flip-dots. Much as I enjoy
> Mondays no-one gets much done usually! Or another day that suits people?
> Justin you're of course right that the esp8266 will probably run the
> panels fine, but for the sake of £4 more it might be worth the upgrade,
> just to give ourselves some headroom to be a bit sloppy with our code. :-)
> I'd like to be able to serve basic game controllers to phones as webpages
> and have multiplayer pong/tetris/tron etc.
> Or accept a video feed for live playback.
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:23 AM, Andrew Price <andy at andrewprice.me.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> On 14/02/18 01:36, Nathan Hackett wrote:
>>
>>> If anyone is interested in the new group project, I've put a page on the
>>> website-
>>> https://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Main/Projects
>>>
>>
>> If you want to see them in action check out the instagram. ;-)
>>>
>>
>> I've added the Instagram post to the wiki page :)
>>
>> Are there going to be scheduled meetups for this project at the space? It
>> looks pretty fun. People were playing with the displays last night but
>> since it was a crafternoon evening, I was too busy trying to keep count of
>> my stitches while voltage and resistance values were being discussed across
>> the table (ahem... ;) ) to take an active interest.
>>
>> Andy
>>
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