Red / Green Pixel Colours Based off Stock Market Levels

[Toni]

Hi Guys,

Can anyone please point me in the right direction here?

How are some people able to program a pixel controller to display either green (when up) or red (when down) on stock market conditions.

I'd imagine you would need a controller that takes an SD card that is pre-programmed and which hooks into an API?

Thanks

 

[JohnsRdChristmas]

Guess it's more a software thing more then a controller thing (unless a controller has some sort of a plugin to grab stock data)

Controller receives data and displays it,
Software/plugin needs to grab and sequence the data,

Will look into it though as I'm curious

 

[JohnsRdChristmas]

Are you using a falcon pi? As there looks to be a stock ticker, not sure if there's config options for it but sure the green red would be a common idea

 

[Toni]

Cheers. Im not using anything yet, trying to figure out what the ideal controller would be. It needs to be dead simple.

 

[Toni]

what about an Arduino?

 

[David_AVD]

Sure, you can use an Arduino and some libraries to control the pixels, but you're going to have to write a bunch of code for the stock market part.

 

[Toni]

Im certain someone would have already done the code part. Arduino has a huge community.