PGFernandes.pt

Do you guys remember this project? [ Matriz de Led’s ]

I got this Rasbperry Pi Zero and a panel of 11x5 led panel and if was fun to send text to it. But I need it more… then I remember of my “Big led panel code” and saw the potential to adapt it so I could draw on my new “Mini led panel”.

I just used the same code that I made of it and change some vars X, Y, Color Array (to white and black) and the function to generate the output code (in this case didn’t need to send to an Arduino) and BAM!

The only “new thing” I made was an web API, to receive a JSON string with the command and data needed for that command. Now I can send messages, draw and run loaded scripts for everywhere to my new “mini led panel”.

I even let some friends control while I was changing the UI, so I could be surprised with the results. Here one of those drawing… I think it’s a boat :)

PLUS:
I also did a web crawler to get #EURO2016 result from a website. I wanted to see the score for Portugal games  on my panel. So I mad the crawler program to send and display the score using the LedPanel webAPI that I also made.

(Portugal goal)

Where the result: 

(island goal)

Spoiler: Portugal Won ;) 

“When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.” - Walt Disney