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LED Video Wall

Yes, VHS has its own jumbotron, and its AWESOME!.

Quick facts

Status Operational February 2020
Training Not Needed
Hackable Software on the computer - Yes
Hardware - Probably not a good idea
Firmware on the FPGA's (sender and reciever cards) - Very not advised unless you know what you are doing password at bottom section of this page
Usage Restrictions None
Owner VHS
If it Breaks Contact David - @dbynoe on slack and talk
Location In lounge
Value $$$$ - Fricken Priceless
Champion See Compendium of Champions
Talk Threads https://talk.vanhack.ca/t/led-video-wall-donated-by-a-local-non-profit/9703
https://talk.vanhack.ca/t/where-to-install-our-video-wall/9791
https://talk.vanhack.ca/t/led-panel-donation/9687

Main Hazards

Quick facts

Powering up the Video Wall

Playing a Game

Displaying Anything else on the screen

Disconnecting the Power

System Overview

The LED Wall consists of four main components connected in the following manner.

Computer → Sender Card → Receiver Card → LED Panel

Computer

Sender Card

Reciever Card

LED Panel

Setting password

DO YOU NEED THE PASSWORD FOR THE PARA SETTINGS?

READ THIS FIRST!!!!

YOU CAN DESTROY THIS DEVICE WITH THE WRONG SETTINGS

THIS IS NOT A JOKE

Rule 1. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE PROGRAM ESPECIALLY SCREEN OPTIONS AND RECIEVER CARD AREAS

hitting apply will overwrite the current settings

which we do not have a backup for THEY ARE UNRECOVERABLE.

I spent over a month trying to recreate them using a spare reciever card

It did not work, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FIGURE IT OUT WITHOUT FIRST TALKING TO @dbynoe, there is no recovery possible, YOU WILL DESTROY THE DISPLAY, no take backsies. I spent a lot of time to build this, a ton of hours figuring out how to make it work, and a bunch of hours, donated a decent chunk of cash to buy the sender card. DONT FUCK IT UP. thank you.

Rule 6. Limit brightness to below 20%, 100% will draw up to 30amps.

Rule 8: note that that you have been made aware of a very limited subset of the potential hazards contact @dbynoe on talk/slack if you really want to play with this.

Rule 10: the password is the numbers of the above rules in order, only change settings under screen display (brightness, but keep it under 20%) or output area of image