DESCRIPTION
Bring a little bit of Times Square into your home with this sweet 32 x 32 square RGB LED matrix
panel. These panels are normally used to make video walls, here in New York we see them on
the sides of busses and bus stops, to display animations or short video clips. We thought they
looked really cool so we picked up a few boxes of them from a factory.
These are a lot like our 6mm Grid 32x32 RGB LED matrix panel, but The LEDs on this panel are
also a little closer together (a 5mm grid) so you won’t have to stand as far away to appreciate it.
They are made to look good indoors, even with a wide-angle view (160 degrees) and look
great in ambient light.
These matrices have 1024 bright RGB LEDs arranged in a 32x32 grid on the front. On the back
there is a PCB with two IDC connectors (one input, one output: in theory you can chain these
together) and 12 16-bit latches that allow you to drive the display with a 1:16 scan rate.
These displays are technically 'chainable' - connect one output to the next input - but our
Arduino example code does not support this (yet). It requires a high speed processor and more
RAM than the Arduino has!
These panels require 13 digital pins (6 bit data, 7 bit control) and a good 5V supply, up to 4A
per panel. We suggest our 4A regulated 5V adapter and then connecting a 2.1mm jack. Please
check out our tutorial for more details!
Comes with:
A single 32x32 RGB panel,
An IDC cable
A power cable
We also include 4 mounting screws and mini-magnets (it appears these are often mounted
on a magnetic base).
Keep in mind that these displays are designed to be driven by FPGAs or other high speed
processors: they do not have built in PWM control of any kind. Instead, you're supposed to
redraw the screen over and over to 'manually' PWM the whole thing. On a 16 MHz arduino, we
managed to squeeze 12-bit color (4096 colors) with 40% CPU usage but this display would
really shine if driven by any FPGA, CPLD, Propeller, XMOS or other high speed multi-core
controller. The good news is that the display is pre-white balanced with nice uniformity so if you
turn on all the LEDs it's not a particularly tinted white.
Of course, we wouldn't leave you with a datasheet and a "good luck!" We have a full wiring
diagrams and working Arduino library code with examples from drawing pixels, lines,
rectangles, circles and text. You'll get your color blasting within the hour! On an Arduino, you'll
need 16 digital pins, and about 1600 bytes of RAM to buffer the 12-bit color image. At this time
we do not have wiring documentation for the MEGA.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Datasheet
Dimensions: 167.6mm x 167.6mm x 14.3mm / 6.56” x 6.56” x 0.56”
Panel weight with IDC cables and power cables: 218.82g
5V regulated power input, 4A max (all LEDs on)
5V logic
2000 mcd LEDs on 5mm pitch
1/16 scan rate
Indoor display, 160 degree visibility
Displays are 'chainable' - connect one output to the next input - but our Arduino example
code does not support this yet
We have a full tutorial here!
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