wraggster
June 9th, 2014, 21:47
http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/megascroller.jpg?w=580&h=317
The folks at NYC Resistor have a thing for circular displays, it seems. Their earlier Hexascroller was a ceiling mounted display with six 30×7 displays – good enough to display the time and a few textual message in six directions. The Octoscroller bumped up the display capability with eight 16×32 RGB LED panels. Now the Megascroller, a 32-sided 512×64 display (http://trmm.net/Megascroller) is hanging in the hackerspace, complete with 360° Mario and Pong.
The Megascroller is one of [Trammell Hudson]‘s projects, constructed out of sixty-four 32×16 RGB LED matrices. That’s an impressive amount of controllable LEDs, that required a lot of processing power: namely, the BeagleBone-powered LEDscape board used in their earlier Octoscroller (http://hackaday.com/2013/09/17/octoscroller-takes-the-hexascroller-to-the-next-level/)
As far as applications go, they naturally have Pong, but a more interesting application is the side-scrolling Mario that requires you to move around the display as you play. You can check out a video of that below.
If you’d like to see the Megascroller in person, as well as a whole bunch of other crazy blinking interactive projects, NYC Resistor is holding a an interactive show this weekend (http://www.nycresistor.com/2014/05/15/interactive-show-on-sat-67-800/), beer provided.
http://hackaday.com/2014/06/05/the-megascroller-for-video-games-in-the-round/
The folks at NYC Resistor have a thing for circular displays, it seems. Their earlier Hexascroller was a ceiling mounted display with six 30×7 displays – good enough to display the time and a few textual message in six directions. The Octoscroller bumped up the display capability with eight 16×32 RGB LED panels. Now the Megascroller, a 32-sided 512×64 display (http://trmm.net/Megascroller) is hanging in the hackerspace, complete with 360° Mario and Pong.
The Megascroller is one of [Trammell Hudson]‘s projects, constructed out of sixty-four 32×16 RGB LED matrices. That’s an impressive amount of controllable LEDs, that required a lot of processing power: namely, the BeagleBone-powered LEDscape board used in their earlier Octoscroller (http://hackaday.com/2013/09/17/octoscroller-takes-the-hexascroller-to-the-next-level/)
As far as applications go, they naturally have Pong, but a more interesting application is the side-scrolling Mario that requires you to move around the display as you play. You can check out a video of that below.
If you’d like to see the Megascroller in person, as well as a whole bunch of other crazy blinking interactive projects, NYC Resistor is holding a an interactive show this weekend (http://www.nycresistor.com/2014/05/15/interactive-show-on-sat-67-800/), beer provided.
http://hackaday.com/2014/06/05/the-megascroller-for-video-games-in-the-round/