I was browsing HackADay when I came across an article called, “FPGA Ambilight Clone Packs a Ton of Features“. I immediately got excited and thought, “I hope we can port this to the Papilio.” When I opened the article I saw to my great delight that the project WAS done on the Papilio! Even better the author created a MegaWing for the project. First thing I thought was how amazing this would be in my own living room and that I want to make one of these MegaWing’s for myself. My next thought was, well maybe I should talk to Esar about doing a batch of these boards so everyone can enjoy this project. 🙂 I’ve sent a message to Esar and hopefully we can get a batch of these boards made. In the meantime, check out how amazing this project is!
- Direct HDMI input at up to 1920×1080 60Hz
- Drive up to 8 strips of LEDs at full frame rate
- Up to 512 LEDs per strip for a total of 4096 LEDs
- Each LED can take it’s colour from any one of 256 arbitrary screen areas
- Each LED can use one of 16 colour correction matrices
- Each LED can use one of 8 sets of gamma correction tables (separate tables for each R, G, B channel)
- Output can be delayed up to 8 frames with microsecond steps for precise synchronisation with TV
- Configurable temporal smoothing
- Up to 64 configurations can be stored in flash memory
- Automatic letterbox/pillarbox detection which can trigger loading of different configurations from flash memory
- Configurable via serial console with a greatly extended command set
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