ECE434 Project - LED Matrix

Team members: Brock Grinstead and Blake Emmert

Grading Template
I'm using the following template to grade. Each slot is 10 points. 0 = Missing, 5=OK, 10=Wow!

 00 Executive Summary 00 Installation Instructions 00 User Instructions 00 Highlights 00 Theory of Operation 00 Work Breakdown 00 Future Work 00 Conclusions 00 Demo 00 Late Comments: I'm looking forward to seeing this.

Score: 10/100

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Executive Summary


Our project involves interfacing with six LED matrices and audio input. The goal is to take the audio input, perform a frequency domain analysis, and then display the frequency spectrum onto the LED matrices as a spectrometer.

Give two sentences telling what works.

Give two sentences telling what isn't working.

End with a two sentence conclusion.

The sentence count is approximate and only to give an idea of the expected length.

Packaging
If you have hardware, consider Small Build, Big Execuition for ideas on the final packaging.

Installation Instructions
GitHub The project is located on GitHub here: https://github.com/grinstba/LEDMatrix

Hardware Here are the links for the specific hardware we used for this project.

We borrowed a six panel LED Matrix, power supply, pocket beagle, and pocket scroller cape from Dr. Yoder.

LED Matrix - https://www.adafruit.com/product/2277

Pocket Beagle - https://www.amazon.com/BeagleBone-Beagleboard-PocketBeagle/dp/B07663NS35

Micro USB Cable - https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Male-Micro-Cable-Black/dp/B0711PVX6Z/ref=sxin_2_pb?keywords=micro+usb+cable&pd_rd_i=B0711PVX6Z&pd_rd_r=ee00e633-9542-4c6f-aa69-20954edf8edc&pd_rd_w=vpOFg&pd_rd_wg=RBAWp&pf_rd_p=50bbfd25-5ef7-41a2-86d6-74d854b30e30&pf_rd_r=H5WCMVZ3E8MT83GPABEV&qid=1572376262&s=electronics

16 GB Micro SD Card - https://www.amazon.com/Micro-Center-Class-Memory-Adapter/dp/B07K835MNR/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=micro+sd+card&qid=1572376346&refinements=p_n_feature_two_browse-bin%3A6518303011&rnid=6518301011&s=pc&sr=1-3

Pocket ScrollerV2 Cap - https://kulplights.com/product/pocketscroller/

Power Supply -

Installation

Go to https://falcon-player.gitbooks.io/falcon-player-manual/content/chapter_three_installation/downloading_the_falcon_player.html and follow the instruction to download the latest falcon player image and then flash it to one of your SD cards. Make sure to download the Beagle Bone image and not the Raspberry Pi image. Also, we were not running the falcon player off of eMMC.

Once falcon player is installed, boot up your Beagle Bone and ssh into it with the following credentials:
 * username: fpp
 * password: falcon

By default the image we are running doesn't allow a root login. You will need a root login in order to get internet access on the Beagle Bone. In order to setup internet access, first ssh into the Beagle Bone with the default username and password listed above. The root access directions below are modified from https://elinux.org/EBC_Exercise_02_Out-of-the-Box,_Bone

Then run the following commands on the Beagle Bone bone$ sudo bash root@bone# nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Search for the line and change it to PermitRootLogin yes
 * 1) PermitRootLogin prohibit-password

Save the file and quit the editor. Restart ssh so it will reread the file. root@bone# systemctl restart sshd

And assign a password to root. root@bone# passwd

Now open another window on your host computer and enter: host$ ssh-copy-id root@bone and enter the root password. Test it with: host$ ssh root@bone You should be connected without a password. Now go back to the Bone and turn off the root password access.

root@bone# nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config Restore the line: and restart sshd. root@bone# systemctl restart sshd root@bone# exit bone$ exit
 * 1) PermitRootLogin prohibit-password

You should now be able to ssh as root into the Beagle Bone.

Once you have root access,

Once connected to the Beagle Bone, go ahead and clone our GitHub project from https://github.com/grinstba/LEDMatrix.

Once the projected has cloned, run the install.sh script to install the needed packages for the project to run.

User Instructions
Many of the following images and directions come from Mark A. Yoder's documentation found here

In order to light up an entire 32x64 LED panel white (Red, Green, and Blue all on), you will need at least a 5V 4A power supply. Each panel has a single power connection and a data in and data out connection. The data in connections control how the panel operates and the data out connections allow you to daisy chain the panels together to created a large display. The image below shows the connection.

Once the falcon player image has been flashed to an SD card, insert the SD card into your Beagle Bone and connect it to a host computer via USB cable. Browser to https://192.168.7.2 and you will see the falcon player control panel shown below.

Highlights
Here is where you brag about what your project can do.

Include a YouTube demo the audio description.

Theory of Operation
Give a high level overview of the structure of your software. Are you using GStreamer? Show a diagram of the pipeline. Are you running multiple tasks? Show what they do and how they interact.

Work Breakdown
List the major tasks in your project and who did what.

Also list here what doesn't work yet and when you think it will be finished and who is finishing it.

Future Work
Suggest addition things that could be done with this project.

Conclusions
Give some concluding thoughts about the project. Suggest some future additions that could make it even more interesting.