Author Topic: Colordmd + Dmd extender = nice colored head lcd and a small apron based lcd?  (Read 2707 times)

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Offline koops

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Has anyone used both? Can it even be done? Is there some fundimental reason it wouldn't work? (Ie no way to get an output from the colordmd etc).

The idea : replace stock Dmd with the specific game color Dmd then utilise the Dmd extender to extend the nice colors to an apron based lad between the flippers.

I know it can be done with just the extender just wondering if the colordmd works the same way.

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Offline koops

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ok i think i figured this out myself.

You cant get the colorized dmd into a smaller lcd due to the way that the colordmd does its interpretation. You'd have to intercept the colordmd to lcd signal to grab the colorized pixels. :\

You can still do it but the small lcd would be the first in the daisy chain and would thus be monochrome and not a smaller version of the colordmd.

booearns.  ^.^

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I built a DMD screen into a theatre of magic in the apron and it was really good to play because the screen was right below your flippers

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I built a DMD screen into a theatre of magic in the apron and it was really good to play because the screen was right below your flippers

well thats the idea but i wanted to see if it was possible to get the colorised colordmd version (not just color tinted etc).

Got any pics of what you used for the lcd housing?
« Last Edit: July 16, 2015, 07:38:33 PM by koops »

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Yeah daniel, would love to see and hear more about your project.
Still loving my Metallica Premium