Starship on the LED Gadget

[Jim McClanahan]

It goes without saying that every REAL computer MUST be able to show the Starship Enterprise in some form or fashion.

Thanks to Liu, the PAL-1 brings the KIM into that elite group of vintage machines...

You can see the animation out on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UThleUTNTBM

For those who promise not to mock me for the shear size of such a simple program, the source can be found on my github site at:

https://github.com/w4jbm/PAL-1-6502-SBC/tree/main/starship

I learned a lot about the MAX7219 in the process of writing this. I don't think the PAL-1 could come close to limits of the speed on the MAX7219, but most simple animations aren't likely to press the horsepower of the PAL-1 either. There is a pretty significant timing delay between "frames" of the animation and without those delays the whole thing is just a blur.

Thanks,

Jim

[GN L]

Thanks Jim’s sharing! Now we have the Enterprise starship on LED matrix~~

> On Mar 21, 2022, at 3:51 AM, Jim McClanahan <jim3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It goes without saying that every REAL computer MUST be able to show the Starship Enterprise in some form or fashion.
>
> Thanks to Liu, the PAL-1 brings the KIM into that elite group of vintage machines...
>

> <starship.jpg>
>
> You can see the animation out on YouTube:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UThleUTNTBM
>
> For those who promise not to mock me for the shear size of such a simple program, the source can be found on my github site at:
>
> https://github.com/w4jbm/PAL-1-6502-SBC/tree/main/starship
>
> I learned a lot about the MAX7219 in the process of writing this. I don't think the PAL-1 could come close to limits of the speed on the MAX7219, but most simple animations aren't likely to press the horsepower of the PAL-1 either. There is a pretty significant timing delay between "frames" of the animation and without those delays the whole thing is just a blur.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>

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Best,
Liu

[Neil Andretti]

Yay. Very structured code and a blueprint for all future projects. Thank you, Jim

[474E4C]

Yes, it's an assembly version of HOW TO programming the led matrix!

and, funny gif ;)

[Michael Doornbos]

This is great. I've got the 4 in 1 gadgets in my cart now ;-)