Pharmageddon

by The Paramedics

a demo for a pharmacy LED sign presented at TRSAC 2022

The Paramedics are...

• Gasman - Code, hardware
• Nico - Code
• RaccoonViolet - Graphics
• Stormcaller - Visuals
• Superogue - Code
• TôBach - Music

Active ingredients

• 1 x Raspberry Pi 3
• 5 x LED matrix panels, 64x64 pixels
• 1 x Electrodragon panel drive board
• 1 x 300W power supply

To be consumed with rpi-rgb-led-matrix, assimp, and SDL2.

Building

To run on the real hardware, cd to the led directory, run make, then launch the pharma executable with:

sudo ./pharma --led-rows=64 --led-cols=64 --led-parallel=3 --led-slowdown-gpio=2 --led-pwm-bits=8 --led-chain=2 --led-show-refresh

To run continuously on startup, add the following to /etc/rc.local before the exit 0 line:

while true
do
    cd /home/pi/pharmageddon/led && ./pharma --led-rows=64 --led-cols=64 --led-parallel=3 --led-slowdown-gpio=2 --led-pwm-bits=8 --led-chain=2 --led-show-refresh
done

To run the SDL-based simulator, cd to the simulator directory, run make, then launch the pharma executable.