With PIN2DMD Colorprism you get a pinball color dotmatrix display replacement solution using STM32F4 processor with the industry’s highest benchmark scores for Cortex-M-based micro controllers. It currently uses either the STM32F407 discovery board together with a shield PCB which forms a modular future upgradeable solution or a custom controller hardware (not modular).

Currently supported features are:

Real pinball machines:

- WPC/WPC95 real pinball input
- Stern real pinball input
- Whitestar real pinball input
- DataEast real pinball input
- Stern Spike real pinball input
- Gottlieb real pinball input
- Capcom real pinball input
- AlvinG real pinball input
- Spooky AMH
- DataEast 128x16
- Sega 192x64
- DotMation 192x64

Full colorization using
- Pinball Browser / SmartDMD color switching for full color Stern ROMS
- Frame colorization with PIN2DMD Editor by Steve for all pinball machines

Virtual pinball machines with support for
- Visual Pinball / PinMame USB input
- Future Pinball with DMD interceptor DLL
- Unit3d Pinball
- Ultra DMD (currently 16 shades)
- XDMD (full color)
- PinballX (full color with latest version)
- The PinballArcade
- PinballFX

- WCID Windows automated driver installation

The attached images are showing the two available options for hardware:
- EVO128x32, EVO128x16, EVO192x64, EVO256x64 custom board
- modular shield design using STM32F429 Nucleo-144 board
- modular shield design using STM32F407 Discovery board

All information how to build a pin2dmd can be found on pin2dmd.com and on https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD

The shield designs can also be used with the go-dmd clock project from here
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/rgb-godmd-clock-made-in-germany

You can download the latest version here
https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/archive/master.zip

To upgrade or install follow the instructions from here
https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/blob/master/documentation/Pin2DMD%20installation%20-%20FW%20and%20Driver.pdf

When you start the device for the first time you get a unique ID displayed starting with #.
You have to request a activation key to make it work.
Members of the hall of fame and content contributors get the key for free by sending me a PM.
For the rest, we kindly request to send your UID and username with the donation link in my signature below.

You have to place the key file in your pin2dmd.exe directory or rename it to pin2dmd.key and copy it to your sd card.
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We often discussed a design like that which is not to hard to realize, but so far we don´t know which potential future changes make it necessary to add something to or change the hardware design. That´s why we decided to keep it modular until we run out of ideas or ports. That way you only have to swap the low cost shield to add new hardware features without throwing away the complete hardware.

Difference is that UncleSash is a private person and not running a business. He organizes a group buy of shields and solders them as a private service for the community. Pinballsp is clearly a business as stated on top of their facebook page, which needs to make money of his products.
Steve and I also do the codeing just for fun and not for personal profit. The only thing I ask for is a small donation for our charity project I like to support. So if somebody thinks that the money he paid is adaquate to the private time we invest, he should really step back, think twice and have a look at the prices for other products which are commercially sold out there.

You are right. For the given price "we" could also have produced the shields by children in china and make big money.

No problem ! Welcome !

It seems that his first post on facebook together with the picture of a display with our logo on it gave a wrong impression. Now that he made things clear, that he is only making and selling the hardware without the pin2dmd firmware on it, there is absolutely no legal problem with this and obviously not a violation of our license. So any private person who is want´s to try this hardware with pin2dmd is free to do so and will get a key from us.

Thanks for helping

You have to make sure that you don´t power the display with your usb port otherwise you may kill either your usb port or your controller.

Sounds like a good plan as long as the software also stays non commercial, which is also a part of the license.
I love the idea of retiring and having time for something new if somebody with better skills takes over.
I have some motorcycles here which are waiting for a restoration.
When will the second version with wifi be available ? I think I have to play with that.
About the 192x64 displays, I already made a test run with 1/32 scan panels and the mpu is fast enough
but memory could become a problem. Was thinking to change to the 429 disco board for that.

There is only one thing that is better than power - more power !
Did you change the code for different clocking otherwise you are running at 168mhz.
The transfer from the pinball or to the DMD is not the problem. These speeds are limited by hardware anyway (bus speed).
Recognition is hardware accelerated and may not be a problem either, but that depends on the amount of variants you want
to check. Realtime picture processing (colorization) is currently the most mpu and memory intensive but we are currently
working on an faster routine for that.

Seems to be the same I was using for a timing test at 192x64. The timing was already for 3 of those in a row although I only have one.

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Luis from pinballsp and me already had a talk about that and we agreed that pin2dmd will support his new hardware including the wifi part. We also had a talk about the needs for pin2dmd and he modified the latest layout accordingly. We will add wifi as an alternative to usb to capture dmd output from real pins to be used with pin2dmd editor. OnScreen menu and setup through wifi from a mobile phone sound fancy but don´t make any sense to me. SD card is also a part of the concept of pin2dmd to make it easier to preload with pin specific data. The board will be a nice alternative to the current shield / evaluation board combo. Currently I´m waiting for Luis to finish the boards and hope he will send us 2 soon for further development. We will see where this gets.

As I already said we see Wifi as a USB replacement and therefore it will cover all aspects of the current USB tools, like settings and upload of data from a laptop, but I don´t think we will have a Apple or Android App for this. What I can also think of is having a live stream of what is displayed on the DMD to a PC for tournaments.

btw. just added import of .dmc files from setdmd tool for real pinball machines to the pin2dmd.exe tool. There already is a large database with color presets for different machines like this one here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d2x0he8q6beg2ak/7Y-J6BCxwv

Great Luis ! Can´t wait to test the 427 with pin2dmd. Already found the "perfect" firmware for the Wifi.
Should be pretty easy to get this running.

I would suggest to first start with the 427. It should be usable with current pin2dmd binary without modification. It will run at 168Mhz and use 192k RAM then, since neither the clock settings nor the linker script is modified to do any other. It should behave like the current pin2dmd hardware but leaves us the option to use more ram if necessary (192x64) with minimal modifications. If we change the clock settings we have to adjust several timings again. The F7 is nice but would behave different, i think. I will ask Steve (pin2dmd editor) to share his opinion here also.

We already have 250 pin2dmd devices out there in use which I want to keep compatible

Then it is even better that Luis is offering the hardware with different processor options. I won't drop the users who supported pin2dmd project from the first day. 427 it's strong enough for our needs. If someday not, I would directly go to fpga.

That would mean that you display every plane when it is received which on the other hand would mean you don´t have the information about the color value. You need to add 3 frames of WPC to get the value since it creates the 2 bit color depth by sending the second frame twice. You have that ghosting also on monochrome displays but it is not noticeable since it is a shade of the same color.

Please check with the 2.08 binary from github also. I can send you a activation key if you send the ID Number on the boot screen.
Is the board with 405 working ?

That part of the job is easy but there is the other part which is the data input from a real machine.
I asked one of our contributors who has access to such a Sega machine to do a recording with a logic analyzer and send it to me to see how data is sent.

I have done some research and found that only these machines use the 192x64 display
Roach Racers, Batman Forever, Merry Shelleys Frankenstein, Baywatch, Maverick, Apollo 13, Derby Daze

What I can offer is to try to make a special release of pin2dmd with one devicemode and which only uses a fixed palette and no advanced features like keyframe or Editor support. Since I only have one panel, Luis can do the testing with 3 panels in a row for the boot screen.

Right ! I misread the article at ipdb.org

http://www.hongguitech.com/30-p2-small-pitch-led-displays.html

They are available but not with 64x64 pixel. Only 48x48

That´s already done by Dr.Pinball at a reasonable price using a raspi http://www.drpinball.co.uk/dmdextender.htm but with the same problems ColorDMD and SmartDMD TFT solutions have - the screen is too large.
If you find a cheap source I would rather go with 8 panels 48x48. You end up 384x192mm which is the closest you can get to 390x130mm and just don´t fill the upper and lower 16 rows with content.

Coyote has already done a pcb to convert the 100V to 5V which can be used as an alternative. The used power supply is also capable to be sourced with 100V so it should also work when you connect it to J605 instead of mains, but I didn´t test that. Either way this should be a separate pcb since it depends on the machine you use the board with. e.g newer Stern already have 5V or Vpins have a PC power supply.

M

Most switching power supply work from around 90VAC upwards

Nice !
I started to implement wifi already. First test was good so far !
Need to make a version with wifi support of my tool now.
Think I´m ready to test when the boards arrive here.

Great job Luis ! Will add wifi integration into pin2dmd firmware when the test boards arrive here.
I will not use the firmware with LUA and AT Commands for the ESP8266. Integration with an alternative
firmware will be much easier. Will have a webfrontend to config the wifi SSID, password, AP or client mode etc.
and a modified version of my tool to do the device communication.

Pin2DMD Firmware V2.0 firmware currently supports

- WPC
- Stern SAM (with smartDMD colorizing)
- Stern Whitestar
- DataEast
- WPC95
- WPC with PinLED board

Currently in development is
- Stern Spike real pinball input
- Gottlieb real pinball input

Need some testing on real machines to make that work properly.

Every generation of Stern devices is different in terms of DMD. Whitestar uses 4 shades, SAM is 16 shades, Spike is also 16 shades but with totally different timing. I tested pin2dmd V2 with LOTR last weekend and could finish the new code with auto sync. V2 uses full speed framerate processing of data, while V1 had to skip several frames due to old slow color routine.

Until someone tests it, I can´t approve, but I´m confident that it will work. So far pin2dmd has been tested with
LOTR and T3 to be working.

I don´t know why Luis thinks SD card and STM32F4 is too slow. Frame replacement is already working with the current design and V2 firmware in full color. Look at the proof of concept we did with a Dr. Who machine. What has to be improved is the keyframe detection, but that has nothing to do with power.

and here with logo replaced by version with more colors

CV has already been tested with V2.0 of pin2dmd firmware

First question is already answered if you think about it.
We already ran tests from 40hz to 200hz and worked fine.
No Film, but we reworked the output routine to reduce as much as possible.
Still have some ideas to make it even better.

So far CPU power is not the problem. If you want, you can test the F746 with the Sega boards. When I made the proof of concept with my
64x64 panel, timing was not the problem. Memory was more critical, since the big screen needs 3 times more than 128x32. For now I will continue to develop with the F4 until this one is exhausted, which is not even near from current perspective.

Yes, problem is not only the software it is also the hardware.The SEGA size P2 panels have also a different pinout and signaling. P2.5 panels I used for proof of concept had at least the same pinout.

Since the V1 opensource version is not stable and missing a lot of features it is not recommended and supported
to use it. It is just for educational purposes and not for daily use.

For your convenience I added a .DFU file of the latest PIN2DMD version 2.x to the github directory here,
so you can directly jump to point 5 of the instructions.

https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/raw/master/firmware/latest/PIN2DMD.dfu

After a successful update you should see the PIN2DMD logo together with a number on the display.
Please send this number together with your forum member name and a donation to support our charity project
(orphans home) ( e.g. 10$ per device but we also accept more and send it to me using this link

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=QNNL5UDYRH4MA

You will receive a activation file for the full version of pin2dmd including the editor from Steve
You either have to rename the file to pin2dmd.key and copy it to your sd card or place it with the original name
in your pin2dmd.exe folder and start the tool without command line argument (gui mode).

He is using standard female header 2x4 pin soldered with about 1mm space between pcb and the header bottom.

The problem is that Luis still refuses to respect our copyright and publishes videos and photos of his device in action without mentioning that it is running pin2dmd firmware. Instead he published a video with the pin2dmd logo removed and replaced by his own and the logo of a customer of his. You can see it here
https://www.facebook.com/Pinballsp/videos/1031448373602065/?video_source=pages_finch_main_video
I only asked him to add a copyright link to pin2dmd.com or to simply mention pin2dmd in posts about features or videos or photos, but he prefers to refuse that and that way continues to pretend that it is completely his development. Still hope that he changes mind.

Absolutely NO ! The STM32 board you ordered from Luis will be supported by PIN2DMD. PIN2DMD already supports keyframes frame replacement, smartDMD colorization, virtual pinmame etc. What Luis is telling is that he is starting his own software project based on the source from Eli (ecrutz) which he then can sell commercially.

Right ! The current status afaik of RGB.DMD and the published sourcecode version of PIN2DMD is single palette only
for all games. The only thing I asked for is that Luis mentions PIN2DMD if he describes features of it or shows it
on pictures or in videos in action.
The reason for this, is that people know that there is an advanced version of it and eventually make a donation for our charity
project to get the V2.X version. I don´t want to waste my time supporting users who are running a very old "proof of concept" version
an telling about problems that are fixed months ago. I want to have the users use the best version of pin2dmd but currently
they don´t even know about it because Luis removes every mark of it on his facebook page what ever the reason for that is.

Here is a video of the 2.x version with full color Avengers done by Sharkky using both SmartDMD and Keyframe technology to achieve.

You need a activation key for each board you use. We ask for a donation of 10 Euro each.

@Rubberduck
If you achieve that colordmd and pindmd3 also release their sources we will for sure follow. So far all the guys talking about contribution and sharing had pure personal or financial interests. We started off with a voluntary donation system and collected 250 Euro in 4 month. Since we changed we were able to donate about 2000 Euros. We already cooperate with Eli, Oga and others and shared a lot of information. In fact Eli was one of the first who had access to our source before he released his code. I also offered to Luis to get access to the latest source if he adds a feature to the open source version which is worth adding to V2. But currently from all the features he was talking about and that he says is capable to add to the firmware, the only thing he did was exchanging the boot graphics which is obviously not a feature we want to add. Maybe Luis should say something about why he is not mentioning PIN2DMD or now RGB.DMD on his website when he is talking of the features of his products.

One funny fact to add is that NONE of all the person asking for the code to be released donated ONE single dollar or contributed anything useful to the project while the others who did are totally happy with the situation.

No problem to talk to him ! No Problem with a splash screen. I can even make a version which detects DMD ST32 and then displays a special splash. Commercialize the software is not an option. Reason for this has been discussed here for hours. It´s time that Luis shares his opinion about this and maybe tell us why he doesn´t want to put credits like "to be used with PIN2DMD" or "designed for PIN2DMD" on his website.

I sent you the link to the source on github on the 6th of october weeks before the link to the repository was made public.

I´m not sure but I think that is not true for the US patent right. In the US you can even been sued for using something in private which is patented in the US.

I´m also crabby about the guy who wanted to make money of it. Made my account in vpforums useless.

You are right !
For his own firmware and his intention to use it commercial it is best luis takes rgb.dmd as base . Since he continues to produce dmd st32 as an alternative to our stm32f4 discovery board shield customers still have the same choice as before. Rgb.dmd or pin2dmd. Competition is good for the users in the end.
Colordmd e.g. has never before released so many titles in such a short time.

Luis is absolutely right ! His board is and will be supported by pin2dmd since it is the same hardware 200+ users are already running. It is just a replacement for our STM32F4 discovery board / shield solution. Wifi support is already integrated in the latest version from the STM32 side but I haven´t finished the ESP code yet.Due to the fact that he uses RGB.DMD for his own development there is also no problem to sell the KINETIS board with preloaded firmware commercially as soon as he has it running.

PIN2DMD uses currently 2 techniques to colorize . One is smartdmd, for which Luis needs the approval from Oga84 to implement and the other is based on frame checksums. Ecrutz and I already agreed on the same algorithm to be compatible. If Luis uses the same, the tools can easily be made compatible which was the intention for PIN2DMD and RGB.DMD in first place.

SmartDMD = PinballBrowser

You don´t need a license to start your project in pin2dmd editor. The only functions which need a license are the ones to export data for the pin2dmd device. For SAM machines I recommend pinball browser to do the coloring and use pin2dmd editor only for scenes when pinball browser doesn´t work. Sharkky just finished Avengers that way. There was a bug with SAM recordings from vpinmame which is fixed in the latest version of the pin2dmd editor. You can now use it to trigger on sam animations correctly and replace the animations with your own ones using 16 colors using mark start - mark end - cut and assigning the scene to a keyframe. You are currently still limited to scenes without dynamic content like scores etc. Look at the tutorial at pin2dmd.com for more information.

This version is too old !!

Please upload your dump file for analysis of the problem.

Why should we write a manual for pinball browser ?? Pinball Browser is from Oga83.
You can find more information here https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/acdc-display-and-modify-dot-matrix-images/page/43#post-3154217

I don´t understand ! You can´t use ColorDMD ROMs for PIN2DMD if that is what your asking.

Yes ! For Stern SAM & Spike preferably using pinball browser for all others using pin2dmd editor.
Both with their current limitations.

Yes by creating a single palette with pin2dmd editor and load it on the sd card.

Your gzip file seems to have a problem. I extracted it and compressed it again using 7zip with gzip as setting
and it worked instantly.

Given that you want to color World Poker Tour which is a Stern SAM game and already uses 16 colors I advice you to go the pinballbrowser way. Maybe I add a short manual how to do that in the future, but the information in the thread is more comrehensive.
If you have a 4 colors game like WPC etc. you can replace complete 4 color scenes with 16 color scenes using mark start - mark end - cut , then edit with 16 colors and add a unique - non dynamic - keyframe as a startingpoint for the replacement.

Currently testing

use pinball browser

Take this sample config from here
http://pin2dmd.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/smartdmd.txt

You can change the colors of the palettes by holding CTRL key and klicking on it.

Looks great !! Please remember to share your result with others and upload the final project somewhere
I just wrote a short tutorial here
http://pin2dmd.com/pinball-browser/

Nice wishlist ! What about you taking the challenge ?

I think this is only true for projects which are commercial like yours or colordmd. If you get paid, I would also expect me getting paid, if I do the work for you or I would keep the work private. Thank god only a few are money hunters and that is the reason why already some great colorization has been done for pin2dmd like Avengers, Mustang, TWD etc. The reason for squabbling is always the money and people acting selfish and unethical.

You have to remove the SMD resistor next to the wifi chip and solder two jumper pins instead, but if you have a ST-Link interface
it is the better way anyways.

Sure ? That´s why I added wifi

From my perspective this pipeline is loooong given that Luis has to do the device code modification and the editor code totally on his own, but we will see. Currently he is busy with something else

If you have patience why not wait for ColorDMD to release the source of the device and the editor to the public

... and more to come.

We will have finished adding these features soon :

- multiple different detection masks instead of one mask for better detection of dynamic content (need to test speed of detection)
- add colors to 4 color frames instead of complete replacement. Working with dynamic frames
(already in editor but missing implementation on device. Maybe this evening)
- Stern Spike signal input with colorizing support using pinball browser (already working but needs some testing)

Here is a video of the last test. One pixel offset should be fixed now

Very nice Luis. Even makes it easier for me as a developer to play with other systems or test other processors.
That is why we started the pin2dmd system as a modular system, to make it easy to add new hardware features
without having to throw the whole board in the trash. Given that with the next release of the controller board
all hardware / interface functions are fixed, we can start to swap processors

It is on pin2dmd.com in the editor section

Please share your pinball browser smartdmd.txt and pbm file to have a look what is going wrong.

From what I can see from the video it seems that the palette information in the upper left corner is overwritten by some dynamic content.
We can fix that with keyframe recognition. Give me some time to investigate it further. I´m currently deep into another problem I have with my ST Pro.

pin2dmd.exe uses the onboard usb plug not ST-LINK.
ST-LINK is only for firmware programming and debugging.

Yesterday evening finally had the time to finish Gottlieb/Premier integration into pin2dmd

V2.20

!!! renamed palettes.dat to pin2dmd.pal !!!

- completely reworked sync routine. Now resync is lossless. No artifacts on resync
- working Stern Spike input for colorization with pinballbrowser
- working Gottlieb input

- New colorization feature : increase colordepth of 4 color animations 16 Colors) . Working with dynamic frames (score display etc. )

Use latest editor version

-> cut scene with "Mark Start" - "Mark End" - "Cut" and select scene

-> Check ColMask ->

-> edit scene with tools (only colors 4 to 15 available for drawing)

-> Select Keyframe where to start playback of additional colors (same as startingpoint of scene)

-> Assign Scene in FrameSeq Dropdown

-> Add ColorMask

-> export project and copy to device

- increased number of detection masks to 10

Basically yes. It is described at pin2dmd.com in the editor section

Could you share your project files including recording to investigate ?

Background animations are mostly random. In STTNG it was possible to choose the keyframe which wasn´t affected by the random stars even without using a mask. You can see what is used for detection in the little preview window next to the keyframe checkboxes.

You want to modify the ROM file of a WPC machine to make a scene predictable ?

I had a look at the dump of a FT machine and unfortunatelly the bubbles are part of both checksums. However since the start from the
bottom it is easy to use a mask, like Kneissl already did, to hit the start of the animation.

In TZ e.g. I used one frame before the first TZ Logo with stars to trigger correctly. Sometimes you have tweak a bit to make it right.

Just in time

to be packed in the next package to germany

Has been a pleasure to work together with Luis on this new version which supports all new and upcoming features of pin2dmd color prism firmware and new go-dmd clock version. A special "topper" version is planned which can be used as a large scale DMD display during game play and as a clock with animations when pinball machine is off. Here is a preview video of go-dmd from Steve

Who knows, what ideas we come up with in the future. For now it covers the features we are currently
working on. As you might know pin2dmd was planned as a color RGB LED controller for virtual pinball
machines in the first place and now it does a little bit more and more and more and more ....

http://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/2604-world-poker-tour/

I don´t see any sense in using additional resources for switchmatrix capturing as you already have the "best" information about the gameplay by detecting dmd frames/scenes. We already have a serial port on the board we could use to control additional hardware (e.g. rgb stripe controllers) by a dmd event and we already discussed that option, but currently that implementation has very low priority. I don´t see any sense in adding new hardware features, when this hardware is not used due to a lack of software support in the near future.

The license only covers the software and since pinballsp and rappelbox only sell hardware, there is obviously
no license problem. We already had this discussion when the pinballsp hardware came up.
The hardware is not only made for pin2dmd, but also for go-dmd clock and as a platform for other developments.
We still don´t give out pin2dmd activation keys to dealers. The private user still has to request the activation key
from us. It is just an alternative to DIY stm32f4 disco board solution. Nothing less and nothing more.
I don´t care which software they put on the device as long as it is not based on the old 1.x version since this
would clearly be a license violation.

... just like anybody can sell STM32 discovery boards and create a shield for it to be used with pin2dmd.
Nothing new with that. However since there is no reference design for the custom boards it is the task / risk
of the designer to make them work 100% with pin2dmd , go-dmd and the other projects. I can not give any
support / help for hardware which I don´t know / own.

Did you insert a SD card to save the configuration on ?

New Version

V2.32
!! removed redundant device modes (PinLED,WPC95 => Bally/Williams, Classic Pinmame)
You may need to reconfigure your device using e.g. pin2dmd.exe
- added realpin Capcom support
- added realpin Gottlieb mode for early machines (1992)
- adjusted Gottlieb modes to latest vpinmame palettes
- added onscreen menu (hold config/blue button during boot) for basic config
- first release with wifi html interface (see flash.md) for basic config
- added reset function for wifi (hold menu and press option button)
- added support for serial port for control of additional sub devices and palette switching

Together with Rappelbox (https://pinside.com/pinball/community/pinsiders/rappelbox) from germangamingsupplies.com we were able to develop a special PIN2DMD firmware for 192x64 displays in the last weeks. It will be usable for vitual pinmame and real pinball machines. There is still some testing on real pinball machines to be done before the hardware can be ordered. Unfortunatelly the current pinballsp hardware is not usable because the layout doesn´t fit on the P2 panels. For vpin builds it will also be possible to use the cheaper P2.5 64x64 1/32 scan panels. After having finished this proof of concept phase he will now design a new Kit which will, as a appreciation for his constant support, be exclusively available from him. Activation of the firmware and support of our charity projects will be as usual. testing and dev will still take a few weeks, so please be patient. For more information please contact him.

Here is a video running Sega Maverick on P2 panels

and here a video of a windowed 128x32 machine in vpinmame.
With the P2.5 panels the display size will be exactly the same as the original machines.
The display size will be 46x16cm in total.

You are ripping this out of the context. The display size of the windowed vpinmame display like shown in the video will be like the size of the original pinball display which is 128x32 with P2.5 dotpitch. In 128x32 mode it uses only the center area of the 48x16cm display. These will only fit in a custom made vpin machine.

The panels shown in the video are P2.0 which will fit in the original Sega machines.

New version 2.33 with Spike and Gottlieb sync changes on github
Also improved upgrade procedure for wifi firmware.

... a other controller It is not planned to support LCD because this is already covered by smartdmd or DMDextender as a DIY solution

I just uploaded the new shield PCB design on github which can be used also with go-dmd clock project from here
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/rgb-godmd-clock-made-in-germany#post-3263156

It has basically the same functionality as the black custom controller from Luis (which is also supported by go-dmd). It has the new features like Wifi, RealTimeClock, Temperature and Humidity Sensor, Serial RS232 connection for SubDevice control or side channel, signal enhancer etc. It can be mounted piggyback on the P2.5 LED panels. The shield is meant for the DIY community or as a cheap upgrade for older shields. Your existing STM32F407 discovery board can be reused. No need for a new key etc. except you plan to use it with goDMD.

Here is the github link https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/tree/master/hardware

I ordered my prototype PCBs here http://www.elecrow.com/services/pcb-prototyping/10pcs-2-layer-pcb.html

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We won´t know unless you try it, because I don´t have one. Even when it is not working we can try to make it work if you are willing to put some time into it.

There are mainly two solutions. One is modular using a STM development board (V3 shield) and the other is a fixed configuration custom board (pinballsp). They both work the same way. The modular is upgradeable and the custom board is smaller (for very tight mounting situations)

Capcom is already implemented and tested on a Airborne. You can increase the color depth up to 16 colors per frame using pin2dmd editor, but you have to do the colorization yourself.

vpuniverse.com is a good place to ask for.

Can you post pictures to show what the problem is ? I have my shield mounted like this

http://vpuniverse.com/forums/gallery/image/918-side-view-of-the-pin2dmd-go-dmd-v3-shield-mounted-on-a-p25-panel/

I think UncleSash has soldered the piggyback connector wrong. You need to use an elevated connector to make sure it connects correctly.
Please contact him about that or use a ribbon cable. You can see that there is a gap between the connector and the pcb here in my shield.
http://vpuniverse.com/forums/gallery/image/919-pin2dmd-go-dmd-v3-shield-bottom-connector/

You need to copy the complete folder from github not only the exe.