Comments on: Run your pinball DMD with a Parallax Propeller http://benheck.com/02-12-2012/run-your-pinball-dmd-with-a-parallax-propeller The Official Site of Benjamin J Heckendorn Sun, 24 Feb 2013 04:55:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Gabe Russ http://benheck.com/02-12-2012/run-your-pinball-dmd-with-a-parallax-propeller/comment-page-1#comment-25020 Gabe Russ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:50:02 +0000 http://benheck.com/?p=1295#comment-25020 This looks awesome, thanks Ben! I'm planning on using this in a machine based off Portal 2, inspired by Ben's Bill Paxton machine build. This looks awesome, thanks Ben!
I’m planning on using this in a machine based off Portal 2, inspired by Ben’s Bill Paxton machine build.

]]> By: russdx http://benheck.com/02-12-2012/run-your-pinball-dmd-with-a-parallax-propeller/comment-page-1#comment-22861 russdx Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:05:24 +0000 http://benheck.com/?p=1295#comment-22861 do you think this hardware is fast enough to support 16colour? without flickering on the dimmer colours? do you think this hardware is fast enough to support 16colour? without flickering on the dimmer colours?

]]> By: Robert http://benheck.com/02-12-2012/run-your-pinball-dmd-with-a-parallax-propeller/comment-page-1#comment-20845 Robert Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:41:13 +0000 http://benheck.com/?p=1295#comment-20845 Hi there! How fast did you get the refreshrate of the display? I've done quite a bit of DMD crunching on the Chipkit (and before that Arduino) for my custom pinball machine and was able to stream around 24 FPS of videodata from SD cards and display it at 8 shades @ 96 Hz. Still not perfect, but the main culprit is the SD card that steals almost 5 ms each loop. If that could be trimmed away everything would run the same in 16 shades. My machine is based on the Bioshock games, for those who are interested... ;) Hi there!

How fast did you get the refreshrate of the display?
I’ve done quite a bit of DMD crunching on the Chipkit (and before that Arduino) for my custom pinball machine and was able to stream around 24 FPS of videodata from SD cards and display it at 8 shades @ 96 Hz. Still not perfect, but the main culprit is the SD card that steals almost 5 ms each loop. If that could be trimmed away everything would run the same in 16 shades.

My machine is based on the Bioshock games, for those who are interested… ;)

]]> By: MHPALA http://benheck.com/02-12-2012/run-your-pinball-dmd-with-a-parallax-propeller/comment-page-1#comment-19930 MHPALA Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:56:53 +0000 http://benheck.com/?p=1295#comment-19930 Sweet!! Sweet!!

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