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RGB LED Matrices with CircuitPython

Bring a little bit of Times Square into your home with our RGB LED matrix panels. These panels are normally used to make video walls — here in New York we see them on the sides of buses and on bus stops — to display animations or short video clips. We thought they looked really cool so we picked up a few boxes from the factory. They come in a variety of sizes from 16x32 pixels and up.

Using the new RGBMatrix library, CircuitPython can blast pixels to these displays really quickly. Use it with DisplayIO for showing text, bitmaps, animations, and more. Not familiar with DisplayIO? There’s a guide for that.

This guide is for select CircuitPython boards — ones based on the SAMD51 (Feather M4, ItsyBitsy M4, Metro M4 etc) and nRF52840 (Feather nRF52840, ItsyBitsy nRF52840, etc).”

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