NLED AllPixMatrix

1/23/24: This project is obsolete and abandoned. Replaced with NLED AllMatrix, a significantly improved application with all the same capabilities.

What It Does:
The software uses many media types such as images, animated GIFs, videos(many codecs), Spout/Syphon, external data reception(like Glediator) and software generated content. It converts or maintains the media to low resolution, that will display well on low resolution LED matrices. Small scale LED matrices require low resolution media, as scaling down larger standard sized media results in poor looking images once down scaled. The different types of media content can be mixed together in different ways, and have effects and filters applied to them. The resulting output is transmitted out to a serial port(like a FTDI or USB enabled microcontroller) which converts it to a pixel chipset protocol and sends it to the pixels.

Description:
This program was written for use with my projects and products, but hope it will be useful to others as well. I am frequently asked about how best to create content for low-resolution pixel matrices. There are a few choices out there, but none that are feature rich and open source. This software was kept simple as possible with the ability to easily modify and add to it. Processing has many inbuilt graphics functions that made it a good choice for this type of software.

This software is released for free for personal and commerical use. Released under the MIT License.

Please Contact Us (JNygaard@NLEDShop.com) by email with any thoughts, questions, bug reports, anything at all regarding this software or LED/pixel related projects.

Or post issues on GitHub.

Short Feature List:
  • Supports LED matrices of all sizes
  • Supports many pixel controllers.
  • Has a Record to File feature, allows the output to be written to a text file.
  • Numerous content/media options
  • Easy to edit and compile using Processing 3
  • Spout/Syphon compatibility, send video from other programs for pixel matrix conversion
  • Completely free and open source

Download Software - Source Only, requires Processing GitHub
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