Has Uncle Sash surfaced? I'd like to buy some shields.

J138, 139 140 and 141 on WPC95 will give you 12VDC. pins 2 and 3.

The EVO board is really purpose made for a Pinball DMD - virtual or real. Given the very specific setup for fixing and DMD size, there would be no point in adding all the required goDMD peripherals.

The best option for goDMD is the VET6 design. I built one recently - looks great, works great

I really like the functionality - time, date, temperature. relative humidity, and animations. Also you can set the text (time, date etc) to one colour or random and set the animations to another colour or random.

I like the fixed colour for text and random for the animations.

Some links to the VET6 board info.

https://go-dmd.de/2017/07/15/neues-godmd-prototypeshield-fuer-vet6-controller/

https://go-dmd.de/2016/09/27/godmd-with-simple-stm32f407vet6-board/

Hi Lucky1 or Steve45,

is there any instructions on how to use the PIN2DMD editor to create animations for goDMD? There is good info for colorizing DMD animations, but I can't find any instructions on how to choose the animations and to then use those animations to create the foo.ani file.

No I didn't before you asked,
but I just tried and no file was was created.

Actually there are a lot of options and I was hoping for some sort of guidance on how to export for foo.ini.

Here is a list of questions:

I expect that the first step is to load a project in the editor. for example I am working on colorization for Scared Stiff so I loaded this project.

When I export for DMD will it export all of the scenes that I have cut as part of my colorization work?

Otherwise, how would I choose what scenes will be exported?

How do I create a project with scenes from multiple games?

For the goDMD, there are some options - cycle, hold, fsk etc - what does each do?

When exporting for goDMD, there are some options - filename, I just entered foo.ani - is that OK.
RGB version - what is the difference between version 1 and version 2.

I am using editor version 2.5.05 32 bit.

I would normally post this at VPuniverse but that website seems to be having trouble these days.
I have competed 3 PIN2DMDs using the V4-Nucleo shield. I have built a few before and I can't remember having the same issue.

The issue is the SD card reader does not seem to work. Is there a way to fault find this problem? I have checked continuity for all of the pins and all are good except SD-CD, but I believe this is not used in any case. The actual SD reader is a waveshare that I have used on the other working PIN2DMD.

I believe that the SD card reader is not working because:
- the firmware update did not work.
- I have put the key onto the card and the DMD is still not activated
_ put fsq and pal files on the card and they are not used

The SD card itself is good, I tried it in a fully working PIN2DMD.

Turned out my problem with the SD card reader wad 2 faulty SD Card devices. I had 6 all together, I got around to testing all of them and only 4 would work.
So now I need to buy just 2 x SD Card readers.

If you use the part circled in blue and choose the correct firmware, after clicking upgrade (and the task completing and verifying) just push the reset button and you will see the PIN2DMD logo on your displays. There is no need to put it into run mode, I don't know what this run mode is and I have built a lot of these. There is also no need for an SD card at this point, the PIN2DMD will work correctly as long as the correct firmware is loaded.

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Any chance you are using the wrong firmware? the firmware file name is PIN2DMD.dfu which you should be getting from the \PIN2DMD\PIN2DMD-master\PIN2DMD-master\firmware\latest\EVO128x32_EVO128x16 - the beginning part of that folder will be different for you as it depends on where on your hard drive you unzipped the project. probably this part is the most important. \firmware\latest\EVO128x32_EVO128x16.

If you are using the correct firmware any chance you have faulty or the wrong type of displays?

Have you soldered in the power wiring and plugged the power cords into the displays?

One test you can do to test if the firmware is running but you have a display problem is insert an SD card, power the PIN2DMD on and off, take out the SD card and read it in your PC. Is there a file written to the card with a longish alphanumeric code? IF it does have this file this then your PIN2DMD is running but you have a displays issue.

I have successfully used 16Gb cards, its hard to find anything smaller these days.

First thing make sure there is no credit dot. A credit dot will cause issues with some frames.

version 4.09 will be the PIN2DMD firmware version. It is an old version, looks like the latest is V4.26 https://github.com/lucky01/PIN2DMD/blob/master/firmware/latest/EVO128x32_EVO128x16/PIN2DMD.upd will get you to the firmware for the EVO board. Assuming he has that board. If unsure check the board type first before loading the update. Failure to check may leave you with a bigger problem.

To load the update, turn off the game, eject the SD card, put the downloaded file onto the SD card, install the SD card and turn on the game. If all goes well you will see something like "updating" on the PIN2DMD.

Updating the firmware may not fix the issue you are seeing as that may be in the colorization files - check that the files are the latest from Netzwerg, when your friend paid for the files he should have got a google drive link to the colorization files so you can downlaod and install the latest.

If your problem remains, you will need to report the problem to Netzwerg.