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# ArduinoOnPc FastLED::GFX LEDMatrix Fork


Blog post with details: http://marc.merlins.org/perso/arduino/post_2020-01-01_Running-FastLED_-Adafruit_GFX_-and-LEDMatrix-code-on-High-Resolution-RGBPanels-with-a-Raspberry-Pi.html

## What?

With this software you can run an Arduino Sketch on your PC and is specifically designed to test code written for any of:
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the extra CPU power, extra RAM, etc... In my specific case, it also allows displaying
arduino code on the faster and more capable rpi-rgb-led-matrix RGBPanel driver.

After you run git submodules init, you will find my suite of demos from
https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos


## Three display drivers: SDL (default on linux/intel), X11 (non default, slow, linux/intel), RGBPanel (linux/rPi)

For development/Debugging, you can also run on PC using the (slow) X11 output or faster SDL output.
https://github.com/marcmerlin/ArduinoOnPc-FastLED-GFX-LEDMatrix/blob/master/examples/Makefile
is used to select X11 vs SDL rendering on linux/intel. rPi is auto detected in
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In turn this affects
https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/4436f8b5a71ceea4ef480f75f83b811b037c2cf6/neomatrix_config.h#L39 which will use one of the 3 available rendering backend for ArduinoOnPc.

Blog post with details: http://marc.merlins.org/perso/arduino/post_2020-01-01_Running-FastLED_-Adafruit_GFX_-and-LEDMatrix-code-on-High-Resolution-RGBPanels-with-a-Raspberry-Pi.html

After you run git submodules init, you will find my suite of demos from
https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos
### SDL Driver
Please see this code to see how to use the driver:
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/4436f8b5a71ceea4ef480f75f83b811b037c2cf6/neomatrix_config.h#L48
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/4436f8b5a71ceea4ef480f75f83b811b037c2cf6/neomatrix_config.h#L268
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/4436f8b5a71ceea4ef480f75f83b811b037c2cf6/neomatrix_config.h#L722

![102_demo_snaps](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1369412/71480161-a982c800-27ac-11ea-8f0e-fb149b6a9ae2.jpg)
![103_demo_snaps](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1369412/71480163-abe52200-27ac-11ea-9cb1-f4d23bdf96ac.jpg)

### X11 Driver
Please see this code to see how to use the driver:
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/4436f8b5a71ceea4ef480f75f83b811b037c2cf6/neomatrix_config.h#L44
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/4436f8b5a71ceea4ef480f75f83b811b037c2cf6/neomatrix_config.h#L239
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/4436f8b5a71ceea4ef480f75f83b811b037c2cf6/neomatrix_config.h#L716

### Rpi RGBPanel Driver
Please see this code to see how to use the driver:
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/022257656e2f1beabe327e88bb96747c0fc955f9/neomatrix_config.h#L262
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/022257656e2f1beabe327e88bb96747c0fc955f9/neomatrix_config.h#L697
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/4436f8b5a71ceea4ef480f75f83b811b037c2cf6/neomatrix_config.h#L40
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/4436f8b5a71ceea4ef480f75f83b811b037c2cf6/neomatrix_config.h#L293
* https://github.com/marcmerlin/FastLED_NeoMatrix_SmartMatrix_LEDMatrix_GFX_Demos/blob/4436f8b5a71ceea4ef480f75f83b811b037c2cf6/neomatrix_config.h#L727

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1369412/71642449-9cce0a80-2cab-11ea-876d-8c9bd6ef3b72.png)

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