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As Brett knows from his great technical support my XPin DMD works just fine with the PinDMD2.

Now that B2S is replacing UVP I honestly can't say I have any issues with the LED-Wiz and stutter.

Since it doesn't get said often enough thanks blur for continuing to work on this stuff. I'm still running version 9, but when I get some more free time I'm looking forward to upgrading to 10.

Yeah, most people map exit to e instead of Esc for precisely that reason.

Sadly I can tell you there's no probably about it.

You can put a PC molex connector over those pins, and you only need to connect one set. Shouldn't matter which, I'd just do the outside ones.

BTW just to update that, I sent it to zebulon to see if he can fix it up (and keep it, we swapped for his new shaker motor). So hopefully he can bring it back to life!

So I fried my XPin yellow/green DMD, stupidly plugging it into 12v on accident. Derp. Brett at XPin is awesome, he responded to an email right away, late afternoon on a Friday, and got me a replacement out Saturday, be here by noon on Monday. That's service. Stupid waste of money, but all my fault, and his speed means all the family flying in from various parts of the country can play around with it still over Christmas.

I have no inside dirt other than what he told me, but if you really want one you might be wise to do it sooner rather than later is all I'm thinking.

The XPin guy told me that word he was hearing was that all plasma displays were being discontinued.

Yeah, no, it's better, but might be somewhat subtle, we'll see. I'm upgrading from a gen one though.

IIRC less flicker, smoother animation, and more shades supported. But Russ may have to correct me, that's from memory.

Hey, if you want to play with it, why not. The Pi is cheap, and if that kind of insanity appeals to you and fixes the problem who am I to argue? It just seems slightly crazy to me that we've reached the point where strapping what is essentially an entire new computer, in a very literal sense, into the cabinet is the solution.

This seems somewhat ridiculous though, doesn't it? Nothing we're doing should require offloading the work to a separate CPU, not if the true bottleneck is simply the scripting in the first place, no? It seems nuts to me that you'd want to offload things to a Pi, which then talks to the Arduino, when there's probably more than enough processing power in the host PC if the scripting was simply more sophisticated. I say that like it's that easy to solve, and it's not and I realize that, but surely it wouldn't be any crazier than dragging an entirely redundant piece of extra hardware into the mix.

I ordered an LED Wiz, hoping it works out. I'm also going to try Zebulon's new board to wire it all, which has the Arduino input option, so if you figure out some magic in that realm pixelmagic I'm more than down to swap over to that solution, in theory it should be pretty painless and not require any new wiring for new controller hardware. Feel like my bets are hedged!

Sorry Randy, wasn't meaning to disparage, you just seemed to not be active here anymore like you are over at say, BYOAC. Obviously you're still keeping tabs! I guess I had mistakenly thought you had found a solution on your end that was more more independent of the scripting, but just hadn't had time to implement it.

Definitely interested! Randy had indicated he was considering working on the LED-Wiz stuttering (he seemed to have an idea why it was happening and that it was solvable) but then he stopped posting to the pinball boards as far as I can tell. I haven't reached out to him, but he seems more focused on the MAME crowd still, so it would be good to have someone who cared about the needs of our cabs actively working on solutions.

Details and a video in a new thread.

Quoting myself here to report that the Xpin DMDs work out of the box with the pinDMD. I'll start a new thread for it, I doubt many are still reading this sticky, but if you ask for the 5V version it's good to go.

No, that's a standard mini USB port, just get a mini USB cable to connect to your PC.

Yeah, PinballLooking never replied to the Xpin guy or me (sent him an email) so I took matters into my own hands and ordered a 5V board this morning. I should have it shortly, I'm in CA and he's in AZ, and he promised to ship quickly, so as soon as I have an answer I'll update everyone.

** crickets ** I'm looking into finding out for myself!

Sorry to resurrect an older thread, but has anyone heard any word on using the XPin DMDs with the pinDMD board yet? I've seen several "about to test it!" messages, but no one seems to have actually tried. I know they're out in the wild now and not vaporware, so it seems like it would be a good thing to know.

I'm going to use a 1080p 32" LCD for my backglass, didn't occur to me that at that size it would be easy to make the back glass the 'main' screen for tinkering.