usul27 Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 Some people already asked about it, so I'll do a pre-announcement here: There will be a way to run Serum on a real pinball machine hopefully soon. As the TRON colorisation is already quite useful, I'll start with the Serum integration now. What's needed: - a small electronics board reading the signals from the DMD interface - a Raspberry Pi 4 - this plugs directly onto the interface board - an LCD display. There are some nice "stretched bar" displays available that fit perfectly into a normal speaker panel. I hope to get one really HUGE soon to also have the option for a large display as seen on the CGC machines - lots of software 😉 The software basically consists of 2 parts: Code for the hardware interface: https://github.com/pinballpower/code_dmd Code to read the data and process it: (dump, color, resize, display, ...): https://github.com/pinballpower/code_dmdreader Can I buy a plug-and-play kit? No, there will be no "plug-and-play" solution - at least not from me. However, I try to document the steps to set everything up correctly. Also I won't provide any individual support. Until the software and documentation is rock-solid it's probably only good for people with at least some Linux knowledge. What platforms are supported? The IO-Board and the software have been tested already with WPC, Whitestar, SAM and Spike-1 When will SERUM be integrated? I can't say for sure, but I hope I get a first version working in the next weeks. Let's see... Does it also work with Pin2DMD colorisations? There is some unfinished code available to also use Pin2DMD files, but after what happened last year with Pin2DMD, I completely stopped working on this. If somebody wants to go on with this, I'm happy to tell you what's already there. Why only the Pi4? Because the OpenGL hardware on the Pi3 and Pi4 is very different, I implemented this only for the Pi4. If somebody want's to contribute code for the Pi3 or even other SBCs, I'm happy to integrate it. But I won't spend time by myself on this. What about LED displays? I won't start working on this soon. The Raspberry Pi should be able to also handle this. I know at least one person is already looking into this. If you want to help, contact me. Can I help? Sure, there are two ways: 1. You can contribute code 2. If you're not a coder, create a colorisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usul27 Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 First version is now running on a Raspberry Pi. I should get the new version of the interface board soon. Once this is ready, I'll start writing a guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usul27 Posted March 14, 2023 Author Share Posted March 14, 2023 And on on LED matrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safaex Posted March 22, 2023 Share Posted March 22, 2023 Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinkertilter Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 I have a pin2dmd screen lying around and would like to use it with serum in a real Tron pinball machine. Is it possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk47 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 On 2/4/2024 at 4:28 AM, Tinkertilter said: I have a pin2dmd screen lying around and would like to use it with serum in a real Tron pinball machine. Is it possible? Simple answer: no. You need an alphaDMD (or the next extended version of ZeDMD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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