LED matrix cylinder gaming display

Just to get a first impression about the matrix, 90cm diameter, 70 cm height:

The grid for the new large cylindric matrix (right now 84x20 LEDs) is designed in Fusion360 as a full parametric design, so by changing the number of LEDs for x and y and the material thickness, Fusion automatically redraws the matrix segment. I will use 30 LED/m stripes, so the diameter is close to 1 meter.

To make assembly and transport easier, the design is made for a quarter of the cylinder ,which then later will be combined with 3 other quarters to the full cylinder. Next steps in the design process are:

• mounting of the LED stripes
• connection of the quarters
• cable guiding

Also started to model the matrix in P5.js to do some animation simulation.

Finally added the source code to my GitHub.

Just the test code from the video ;-)

As in my previous LED matrix project, I am using a pygame based simulator for testing the python code on the PC. Code will follow soon on Github.

Here are some more pictures from the LED assembling:

Matrix was designed with Fusion360 and cutted with a laser cutter out of thin cardboard.

It is splitted into two parts to simplify LED assembling and cabeling.

Height is 18 cm, diameter is 20 cm