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The ESP-12 still has the RxD and TxD available for communicating without using the wifi. | The ESP-12 still has the RxD and TxD available for communicating without using the wifi. | ||
[[Image:marquee_on_ESP.jpg|thumb|first PoC (5V logic driven with ESP]] | [[Image:marquee_on_ESP.jpg|thumb|first PoC (5V logic driven with ESP]] | ||
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| + | '''update:''' | ||
| + | It now has a small print that will fit the ESP with programming header: | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | .----------------------------- | ||
| + | |o gnd (+)(-) | ||
| + | |o cts | ||
| + | |o vcc1 | ||
| + | |o tx | ||
| + | |o rx oooooooo | ||
| + | |o dtr | ||
| + | |0 program | ||
| + | |0 gnd | ||
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| + | |0 vcc1 (ftdi) | ||
| + | |0 pwr | ||
| + | |0 vcc2 (regulator) | ||
| + | |0 gnd | ||
| + | |0 adc oooooooo</pre> | ||
=== todo === | === todo === | ||
Revision as of 11:07, 8 October 2016
| Project: PAL0123 | |
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| State | Active |
| Members | xopr |
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| Description | 192x16 bicolor matrix display |
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Contents
PALTRONICS PAL0123 REV 0 (1998) 192x16 bicolor matrix display
synopsis
xopr received two 192x16 bicolor 5mm dot matrix displays (one to keep, one to fix a controller board for).
used ICs
- DM74LS138N decoder/demultiplexer
- M74HCT245B1 octal bus transceiver
- MBI5016CNS 16 bit constant current LED sink driver
pinout and protocol
The marquee consists of shift registers which allows one to shift and latch in 2x192 bits. After that's done, a row needs to be selected and the two colors are displayed with a strobe signal. This means, the display has only 384 bits of memory (one line) and for every other line, a new set of pixels need to be shifted in. The display is controlled with 9 bits: Red, Green, Clock, Latch Enable, Strobe, A, B, C and D (a chip select between the two DM74LS138Ns)
Pinout (this is having the header at the left facing you, having the display put upside down (facing the other way)
pin 1
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GND |oo| Red
GND |oo| Green
GND |oo| CLK
GND |oo| LE
GND |oo| C
GND |oo| B
GND |oo| A
GND |oo| Strobe
GND |oo| D
NC |oo| NC(?)
'--'
plan
Already reverse engineered the pinout and protocol and drove it with an arduino nano.
Unfortunately, with the default settings, it is slow enough that the display's refresh rate becomes annoying.
Did some tests with an ESP-12E module and had great success (the 'D/chip select' pin selecting the other 8 rows somehow failed on GPIO15 and GPIO16).
The ESP-12 still has the RxD and TxD available for communicating without using the wifi.
update: It now has a small print that will fit the ESP with programming header:
.----------------------------- |o gnd (+)(-) |o cts |o vcc1 |o tx |o rx oooooooo |o dtr |0 program |0 gnd | | | |0 vcc1 (ftdi) |0 pwr |0 vcc2 (regulator) |0 gnd |0 adc oooooooo
todo
- write (and upload) some descent code (taking the wifi interrupts into account)
