adamaq01 / dance-matrix

Pretty LED matrices animations for PIU/DDR/ITG dance pads 💃🕺

Dance Matrix

This a Teensy 4.1 firmware used to drive arbitrary sized LED matrices in a PIU/DDR/ITG dance pad.

Its main purpose is to replace the simple LEDs in an original pad with square LED matrices capable of displaying funny animations and effects.

Features

• Supports up to 5 matrices of any size (up to 64x64 pixels) (TODO)
• Can be linked with another Dance Matrix for 2 pad setups (up to 10 matrices) (TODO)
• Supports "virtual" matrices representing the pad's metal frames to simplify animation creation (TODO)
• Loading animations from SD card (TODO)

Requirements

• Hardware
  • A Teensy 4.1 board
  • Up to 5 LED matrices (up to 64x64 pixels) and the same amount of SmartMatrix shields
  • A way of powering the LED matrices
• Software
  • PlatformIO (for building the firmware)
  • TBD (There is no frontend yet)

Building

• Install PlatformIO and the Teensy 4.1 platform (see PlatformIO docs)
• Clone this repository
• Run git submodule update --init --recursive to fetch the SmartMatrix library
• Copy the files inside toolchain-fixes to the ~/.platformio/packages/toolchain-gccarmnoneabi/arm-none-abi/lib directory
• Run pio run in the project's root directory
• Firmware is located in .pio/build/teensy41/firmware.hex

License

MIT