bpratt
Senior elf
Doing my first 'hello weenie' show this year, and was thinking about putting a p5 panel on the bottom of a tombstone, where I could put up random names through the different sequences.
Bought a couple of these at the Brisbane mini https://www.inkcreations.com.au/product/classic-tombstone/ and there's room down the bottom part that I will cut out and fit a regular p5 panel in place there.
Now this is where I'm not super sure on a couple of things.
Can I use a Pi Zero with a RPi-P10 card attached to it, and then by simply using 16pin ribbon cable run it to the next tombstone with a p5 panel in it, which alongside the first one ? I'm assuming there would be about 1 to 1.5m of ribbon cable between them.
Do I need to run one Pi Zero with RPi-P10 on each one? seems a waste of resources if one can drive the two panels, albeit with a longer than regular cable between the 2 panels.
I'm thinking in xlights have it as one model, but with a sub-model for each panel.
Should I be using a Pi 3b instead of the Pi Zero ?
The plan with the panels to be 'boxed up' behind the tombstone prop with corflute based 'box' behind the panel to protect the back of the outdoor panel and other electrical bits, and siliconed to protect it from dampness.
The pixels on the prop would be 5v pixels, and perhaps draw the power from the psu powering the p5 panels, and therefore the smart receiver there too. That would mean I'd need to drag 230v extension cable to it, the cat5 cable for the smart receiver, and another cat5 to bring data to the Pi ?
Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcomed.
Bought a couple of these at the Brisbane mini https://www.inkcreations.com.au/product/classic-tombstone/ and there's room down the bottom part that I will cut out and fit a regular p5 panel in place there.
Now this is where I'm not super sure on a couple of things.
Can I use a Pi Zero with a RPi-P10 card attached to it, and then by simply using 16pin ribbon cable run it to the next tombstone with a p5 panel in it, which alongside the first one ? I'm assuming there would be about 1 to 1.5m of ribbon cable between them.
Do I need to run one Pi Zero with RPi-P10 on each one? seems a waste of resources if one can drive the two panels, albeit with a longer than regular cable between the 2 panels.
I'm thinking in xlights have it as one model, but with a sub-model for each panel.
Should I be using a Pi 3b instead of the Pi Zero ?
The plan with the panels to be 'boxed up' behind the tombstone prop with corflute based 'box' behind the panel to protect the back of the outdoor panel and other electrical bits, and siliconed to protect it from dampness.
The pixels on the prop would be 5v pixels, and perhaps draw the power from the psu powering the p5 panels, and therefore the smart receiver there too. That would mean I'd need to drag 230v extension cable to it, the cat5 cable for the smart receiver, and another cat5 to bring data to the Pi ?
Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcomed.