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== 50-pin connector ==
 
== 50-pin connector ==

Revision as of 20:15, 29 June 2018

Project FlipDot
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Status In progress
Contact User:Sebastius
Last Update 2018-06-29

Status

Het bord hangt aan de muur! Te bereiken via MQTT op topic revspace/flipdot

Controller

Schema

Project op github waarbij een LAWO display wordt aangestuurd door een STM32, met daarin o.a. een pinout van de 50-pins connector met zinnige namen, als ROW_H_0..15, ROW_L_0..15, COL_ADDR_1..4.

Dimensions: 84x16 pixels, distributed over 3 panels of 28x16 pixels each. Each panel has an FP2800 column driver chip.

Interesting links:

FP2800 datasheet

50-pin connector

the 50-pin connector

There is a 50-wire cable going from the control board to the actual flipdot-boards. The image on the left shows the pinout of the connector.

This software drives a pixel like this:

  • select a row by making one ROW signal high: choose ROW_H_x if you want to set a pixel, or ROW_L_x if you want to clear a pixel. The rest of the ROW_H/ROW_L lines are made low.
  • select a column through the COL_ADDR_x pins. The encoding is a bit tricky: a panel of 28 pixels wide has 4 groups of 7 columns each. Pins COL_ADDR_A3/A4 control which group to select, pins COL_ADDR_A0-A2 select (column+1) within the group.
  • the polarity of the pixel (set/clear) is encoded on the DATA line
  • a strobe (pulse) is sent to one of the panels by toggling one of the Ex lines high then low, to actually update the pixel

It appears that the ROW_H_x/ROW_L_x signals are driven directly at high voltage (18V or so) from the control board, while the COL_ADDR_x signals are at logic level. The FP2800 on the back of each flipdot panel then takes these logic-level signals and turns them into high-voltage (18V or so) column signals.

Possibly we can update an entire column at a time, by making several ROW_H_y/ROW_H_y signals high at the same time. Not sure if it is possible to both set and clear pixels in one go, or if it needs two passes: one to set pixels and another to clear pixels.

Serial werkend krijgen

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Pin 2 en 3 van de 74HC14 loshalen. Daarna werken de RX en TX pins op het bord met een USB-Serial TTL. GND niet vergeten...

1200Baud, 7E2 (7 bits, Even Parity, 2 Stop bits)

stty -f /dev/ttyUSB0 1200 cs7 parenb -parodd cstopb

STTY blinkt niet uit in duidelijke parameters...

Code

Met dank aan Juerd:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use autodie;
open my $fh, ">/dev/ttyUSB0";

my $bla = "regel 1\nregel 2";

my $output = "aA11000\n$bla\n\n\r";

my $xor = 0x7f;
$xor ^= ord for split //, $output;

$output .= chr $xor;
syswrite($fh, $output);

MQTT ESP

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Een NodeMCU hangt aan de serial. Code geschreven in Arduino. Er is een beter printje in bestelling om het netter op te lossen. De secundaire TX pin van de NodeMCU wordt gebruikt (GPIO 15) zodat bij een boot/reboot van de ESP het bord er geen last van heeft.

Reparatie

1 IC socket was verteerd door batterijschade. Ook de 4072 vervangen. Kloppen op het IC leverde een reboot namelijk.

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Foto's

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