An attempt at an experimental but slightly opinionated IoT display framework utilising PyGame as a sprite and graphics engine running on a Raspberry Pi outputting to a standard HUB75 RGB LED matrix. PyGame is able to dump its display as an array of RGB values, which are perfect for driving an RGB Matrix using the rpi-rgb-led-matrix library by hzeller.
By utilising PyGame, we can leverage the awesome graphics, spriting and animation systems available as well as develop locally (without the need for a Raspberry Pi and RGB Matrix connected).
- Any Raspberry Pi with 40 pin headers
- RGB Matrix Hat (e.g. AdaFruit RGB Matrix Bonnet or Electrodragon RGB LED Matrix Panel Drive Board)
- HUB75(E) compatible LED matrix
Clone repository (including dependency submodules):
git clone --recurse https://github.com/jinglemansweep/pygame-rgb-matrix.git
Create a virtualenv and install the project requirements:
python3 -m venv ./venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r ./requirements.txt
Clone and pull both the flaschen-taschen library as well the rpi-rgb-led-matrix library dependency, both developed by hzeller. flaschen-taschen should be installed as a Git submodule in lib/flaschen-taschen and the rpi-rgb-led-matrix dependency should be installed as a recursive Git submodule in lib/flaschen-taschen/server/rgb-matrix.
Update and build flaschen-taschen dependencies:
git submodule update --init --recursive
cd ./lib/flaschen-taschen/server
make FT_BACKEND=rgb-matrix # or "terminal"
cd ./rgb-matrix
make build-python