LED wall

[disassembler]

Looking for suggestions and how too's for making LED video walls.

So far I'm looking at MAKE CONTROLLER KIT and Max/Jitter.

Cheers.

[lowRes]

hey!

i'd take a peek on arduino boards, they're probably not as fast as makingthings, but a lot cheaper, and there's an exploding community online.

r_x
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[Motionreactor]

Yes arduino's are heaps cheaper and there are tutorials which show you how to wire up and work with LED driver chips which allow you to take the 8 pins of an arduino board and control many, many more outputs. Having worked with Arduino's I can recommend them highly. They are simple yet very powerful. You should be able to make any programming environment with serial port communication talk directly to the arduino with minimal hassle. Arduino's have onboard memory to store simple programs in non-volatile flash memory (8kb, minus 1kb for the bootloader). They are easy to program and upload new programs to and there is plenty of documentation and a highly responsive community.

[Motionreactor]

I have just read up about the MAKE controller. Looks like quite an impressive piece of kit, it is more expensive though. In your case I am not sure which would be best. How do you envisage connecting to your LED wall controller, whatever that may be? USB? Ethernet? Wireless?

[Motionreactor]

http://gumstix.com/ are pretty awesome too, but a little overkill. Might be of interest to you though. I'm not sure how to work with them but there was a student at my uni who was working with one and she was very excited by the possibilities of it.